In my next transportation planning story, The Gladstone Barrier, I have a couple of scenes that involve what some people would call political interference. They are relatively minor parts of the story. One case in my story isn’t what I would call political interference. In that situation a person at a public meeting gets upset… Read Article →
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I got a second draft of my short story The Gladstone Barrier done this week. I think it is much better, but I still think I’ll need two or more drafts before I think it is ready to post. I wish I could do it faster. I have trouble with some of the dialogue. While… Read Article →
I am almost finished with The Gladstone Barrier, my second “transportation planning adventure story.” I continue to explore the field of transportation planning for story ideas. This post draws on my experience with transportation models. Most of my career in transportation planning was spent on models and forecast. Much of the rest of my efforts… Read Article →
Well, not really the gods and it wasn’t really all that bad. My website got migrated last week. For some unknown reason the version they migrated was from two weeks earlier. I didn’t want to post a blog until that had been fixed. It wasn’t done until late Monday, so I decided to wait and… Read Article →
My goal is to make a film about transportation planning. There are many things I want to accomplish with the film. This is the first of a series of blog posts about what I want to say about transportation planning in the film. I worked for many years in transportation planning, mostly in modelling and… Read Article →
The Crying Woman I did a little writing on The Crying Woman this week. I’m about a quarter of the way through the first draft. I haven’t really filled in the outline yet. I have done most of the easy stuff. My original plan was for a film similar to Before Sunrise. I’ve decided to… Read Article →
I won’t name names since every city will have its own examples. When I first began to work as a transportation planner I wondered why some projects were ever even considered. I thought that they could not be justified on strictly economic grounds. Even so, these projects had broad public support. The explanation I came… Read Article →
The Gladstone Barrier I was stalled on my second “transportation engineer” story for a while now. This week I managed to get started again. I am about half way through the first draft now. It seems to be harder to write than the one I did before. In part it is because I’m trying to… Read Article →
When I started to work on my ideas for a story featuring transportation planners, I didn’t think that it had been done before. I thought I should check before I go too far. So far I haven’t found anything quite like what I have in mind. I have found some movies and a novel that… Read Article →
I just published a new article: Transportation: Planners Versus Modellers. In it I talk about some of the conflicts that develop in transportation planning. I wrote this article because I want to make a movie set in the world of the transportation planner. They say to write what you know, and that was my life… Read Article →
