Archive: Mar 2022

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  • A Story of Two Transportation Projects: India’s Bullet Train and Sri Lanka’s Port

    Two infrastructure projects in South Asia were built on the promises of East Asian trading partners and on extensive lines of credit. Though both are characterized by extensive delays, why is one celebrated as an important step forward towards infrastructure modernization, and the other derided as “debt-trap diplomacy”? In…

  • Free The T: Realistic or Impossible?

    Across the country, a number of  transit systems are looking to redefine what it means to take public transportation through facilitating cost-reduction or free transit programs. These programs may contribute to a reduction in pollution and benefit low-income riders by making transportation less expensive and more reliable. Cities in…