Taxis

Emma Teitel on what happens when a business rates its customers

On the cold, mean streets of Beijing, a private detective searches taxis to recover lost objects and hope

Transit and traffic are emerging as major issues in the Toronto mayoral election, with rival candidates unveiling proposals to replace streetcars, build a tunnel under the downtown, extend subways or add bike lanes, almost daily. It might be of interest, then, to know what the great urbanist Jane Jacobs, patron saint of the Annex, thought about it all. Here she is in an absorbing interview with Reason magazine, from June 2001:

At risk of insolvency, Greece takes on the underground economy