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Regional and multi-state inter city bus transportation. Thanksgiving is a time of big travel.

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I have written about this from time to time, including problems with the set up at DC's Union Station, by comparing it to Toronto and Montreal (" Union Station bus terminal, DC ," 2011). Great 1950s brochure on the Port Authority Bus Terminal in NYC. Flickr photo by Karen Yang (also see the brochure cover and back panel.)

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

5 From 2014 through 2019, however, the average G-fee increasingly became based upon a well-established financial markets concept: 6 to generate, after covering expenses, a proper market return (also known as the “cost of capital”) on the capital that is required to support the risks being taken in the business.

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