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| October 15th, 2012
Assess the monetary value of a congestion-reducing highway project and you will have to attribute a value to the time that drivers save as a result of the project. Often, the minimum wage is adopted as a rough measure of this “economic value of time... -
| July 5th, 2012
Falling into the rhythm of daily life here, I’m beginning to get a sense of the roles that the private sector (including informal networks of citizens) plays—going the next step beyond obtusely identifying areas that the government has and hasn’t... -
| June 18th, 2012
Election season is in full bloom here in Mexico. Planted along distressed sidewalks, brown telephone poles are the stems of blue, aqua, yellow, and red posters proclaiming the nauseating (ad nauseam): “Together it’s possible,” “Veritable change is... -
| June 7th, 2012
Transportation in Mexico City reveals the best and worst of urbanism. On the one hand, the region’s vast population creates enough demand to sustain an incredible range of modal choices—a subway, a light rail, a bus rapid transit system, trolley-...
Nathan Einstein
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A native of the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., I considered myself a connoisseur of congestion and sprawl until touring Mexico City for a week last summer. After graduating this spring in political science (comparative politics) and economics, I returned to el Monstruo, where I'll be living through the end of the year while interning with the Centro de Transporte Sustentable-EMBARQ, a transport and urban development policy institute that works closely with the public and private sectors throughout Mexico.
