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The Assassination of HS2 by the Coward Rishi Sunak
Cost creep cripples high-profile high-speed rail projects. But it's not what kills them.
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S.Y. Lee
5
September 2023
Kyiv Metro vs the World: An Exploration
How can Kyiv Metro run 2-3 minutes peak hour frequency during wartime?
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S.Y. Lee
8
July 2023
Five Transit Lessons from a Eurotrip
From notebook scribbles to the big stage
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S.Y. Lee
12
April 2023
The Global Rise of the Militarizing Metro
A new and growing approach to safety on public transit
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S.Y. Lee
14
January 2023
Seoul Metro's Ugly War with Disabled Protesters Enters Its Third Year
An update to an escalating affair
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S.Y. Lee
9
November 2022
The Death and Privatization of Japanese National Railways (Part 1, 1949-1982)
How does a train agency rack titanic amounts of debt?
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S.Y. Lee
3
September 2022
How American Occupiers Helped Doom Japan's National Public Railways
Douglas MacArthur's dream turned nightmare
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S.Y. Lee
3
July 2022
Downtown Los Angeles, 21st Century: A Personal, Urban History
An ode to an once anti-urban neighborhood
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S.Y. Lee
4
June 2022
The Soldier Who Defended Melbourne's Trams
As Sydney and others abandoned their trams, one man in Melbourne fought back
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S.Y. Lee
5
May 2022
A Bridge Too Far: Where Japan's National Private Railways Is Failing
Will a Japanese railway company experience a death spiral?
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S.Y. Lee
4
April 2022
Seoul Metro's Long, Open, Ugly War Against Disabled Protesters
Demanding more accessibility rights, activists have been paralyzing Seoul rush hour with their bodies and wheelchairs
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S.Y. Lee
6
March 2022
How BART on the Golden Gate Bridge Died: A New History
"A Machiavellian plot" to kill a Bay Area dream
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S.Y. Lee
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