Angie Schmitt

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A Hard Right Turn: The Moment the U.S. DOT Abandoned U.S. Walkers

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 20, 2020 | No Comments

Federal transportation officials have never done much to center the needs of pedestrians in their policies or funding decisions. But in 2012, things took a turn for the even worse.

A rendering of the Hyperloop tube in Cleveland. Image: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies

Questioning the hype around the Cleveland-Chicago Hyperloop

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 20, 2019 | No Comments

The marketing geniuses at Hyperloop TT seem to have seized on some important cultural zeitgeist.