Philosophy
The ideas and projects that inspire
In 1980, inspired by a story in the San Francisco Chronicle about Governor Jerry Brown's desire to build a high speed rail line in California, I wrote to the state with my suggestions. I was a high school student. They responded-
In college, I began researching infrastructure projects, including tansit, rail, bridges, and highways. Soon out of college, I prepared a report that suggested the routes and strategies for exteding Caltrain into downtown San Francisco were sub-optimal. Why not bring the trains to a re-built Transbay Transit Terminal? The Emperor Norton Project was the result and it led to the Salesforce Transit Center that we have today and the proposed DTX project. That was 30 years ago.
From there, I diversified into regional planning and high speed rail. I will
One small project that has been offline for about 20 years is a series of maps showing different highway interchanges if they were placed in the North Beach neighbrohood of San Francisco.