Development & Transportation
By Vihar Sheth on March 22, 2010
On Saturday, March 27th, a first of its kind music / transportation festival called City Sound Tracks will be held in St. Louis. The event’s main purpose is to highlight the importance of transit in the metro area less than two weeks before a very critical vote in St. Louis County on a sales tax [...]
Posted in Culture, Development & Transportation | Tagged Homelessness, Independent Music, Metro St. Louis, Music, Public Transit |
By Vihar Sheth on January 18, 2010
All Things Eco Blog Carnival Volume Eighty Five is now available on the All Things Eco Blog. There are some great posts in this carnival on topics ranging from Alternative Energy to Travel and Transportation. Also included is my recent post, “St. Louis County Council Places Transit Tax On The Ballot,” on efforts to raise [...]
Posted in Development & Transportation | Tagged Carnival, Transportation |
By Vihar Sheth on January 14, 2010
In response to the earthquake and 40+ aftershocks in Haiti, CNN.com has put up a page up called “What we’re hearing via social media“. The page is streaming updates from Haiti as they’re coming in, and while the page claims to have updates from various social media everything I’ve read so far is from Twitter. [...]
Posted in Development & Transportation, Government & Society | Tagged Aftershock, Earthquare, Haiti |
By Vihar Sheth on January 13, 2010
I just got this from Citizens for Modern Transit this morning: The St. Louis County Council voted in December to place a ½ cent general sales tax on the ballot on April 6 for transit operations and expansion including MetroLink. Without the passage of this measure, Metro will be cutting more than 30 percent of [...]
Posted in Development & Transportation, Government & Society | Tagged Metro, Tax, Transit |
By Vihar Sheth on November 24, 2009
My writing is grinding to a near halt. I’m at 22,477 words, which is not that much further than I was last time I checked in. I aim to do some catching up this weekend but I fear that 50,000 word by the end of November is out of the question at this point. Only [...]
Posted in Development & Transportation, Miscellaneous | Tagged NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, Shipping, Thanksgiving |
By Vihar Sheth on November 18, 2009
Twenty one thousand, three hundred and thirty nine words. See how I added more words than necessary? The irony in this writing exercise is to scribe as many words as possible while trying to maintain some semblance of terse writing. Clearly the former has to give to the latter to hit the 50,000 word goal, [...]
Posted in Development & Transportation, Miscellaneous | Tagged Electric Cars, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month |
By Vihar Sheth on November 12, 2009
My writing pace has slowed considerably but I’ve allotted some time this weekend to catch up on my novel. I crossed the 14,000 word mark last night but should really be somewhere north of 20,000. A short work trip earlier this week really skunked it for me. That being said, the novel is progressing better [...]
Posted in Development & Transportation, Miscellaneous | Tagged Chicago, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, Transportation |
By Vihar Sheth on October 28, 2009
I’ve made progress on the plot of my soon-to-be-written blitz of a novel. I’m trying not to think of it too much as recommended by previous NaNoWriMo participants and the founder of the whole torturous exercise so as to not become overwhelmed by details. ‘nuf said, else I’ll be overwhelmed by details. Took a minor [...]
Posted in Development & Transportation, Miscellaneous | Tagged free form, Sustainability, tea |
By Vihar Sheth on July 22, 2009
I spent some time in a “super” center today. You know what I’m talking about – a warehouse the size of a city block that offers everything you could ever want except automobiles and health care. From an efficiency standpoint, I understand the attraction. These behemoths offer one-stop shopping. Need underwear? Check. Need Bananas? Check. [...]
Posted in Development & Transportation | Tagged Housing, Retail, Reuse, Society |
By Vihar Sheth on April 30, 2009
On the same day the Missouri legislature debates funding a gap in St. Louis transit agency Metro’s budget, I had the opportunity to hop on my soapbox for a bit during a business lunch. We were talking about housing, but the conversation meandered – as it does so often these days – to the economy. [...]
Posted in Awareness & Education, Development & Transportation | Tagged Electric Cars, Personal Mobility, Tesla, Toyota Prius |
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