I woke up this morning at 5:30 am in a hotel in Ottawa. I then drove to Brébeuf, Quebec to meet some friends for a ski and snowboard weekend. (It’s beautiful here.) Upon arriving I was faced with a large hill that my rear-wheel car… Read More
https://500px.com/embed.js My friend Evgeny published a great blog post today called, On Car Ownership And The Future Of Transportation. And in it he made the argument that instead of buying a car and an expensive downtown Toronto parking spot (average price: $40,000 – 60,000), most of… Read More
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on New Urbanism, I thought I would post an interesting video discussion between Andrés Duany and Ben Stevens. Duany is the father of New Urbanism and Stevens runs a great blog called The Skyline Forum where he interviews notable… Read More
About a week ago I wrote a post questioning what driverless cars will mean for cities. I ended by saying that that it feels as if we’re going to see increasing tension between private and public transport. What I meant by that was simply that… Read More
In the spirit of Startup Weekend, I thought it would be interesting to go back in time and pretend to pitch one of the most disruptive innovations of the 19th century: the automobile. Typically pitches start by first outlining the problem. The idea is to… Read More
On Wednesday, November 16th, 1898, Harrods department store in London opened up the first escalator – or moving staircase as it was called – in England. The first escalator-like machine in the world had actually been patented many decades before in the US, but this… Read More
Earlier today I stumbled upon a documentary called “The Human Scale.” I haven’t watched it yet, but I’m planning to rent it from iTunes later this weekend. Here’s the trailer. Click here if you can’t see it below. One of the things that’s so fascinating… Read More
Norway imposes big levies on the sale of fuel burning vehicles. They can amount to more than 100% of the sale price—effectively doubling the price of a vehicle. It’s a supertax. Exempt from these taxes, however, are electric vehicles. This has not surprisingly made Elon Musk’s Tesla… Read More
I was browsing my Tumblr feed this morning and I found a link to an interview with Marc Andreessen posted by Fred Wilson. I liked Marc’s response to a question relating to people’s love of cars and so I decided to post it to Facebook.… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 