Percent of energy the global industrial food system accounts for in worldwide fuel consumption: 21%
Average distance an ingredient in a meal in the US is grown away from home: 1500 miles
Number of new car and truck dealers in 2006: 22000
Number of new car and truck dealers in 2010: 18000
Miles of paved road in US: 4 million
Max operating speed of Chicago’s subways: 70mph
Current operating speed due to fragile rails: 15mph
Cost of Maintenance Required in US subways: $78 billion
Cost of replacing Montreal’s 765 subway cars: $3 billion
Cost of a bus fare for Centenarians in Cowichan Valley Regional District: Free
Facebook’s world rank if considered a country: 4th largest nation in world
Estimated world population in 2014: 7.14 billion
Estimated number visitors to Brazil’s 2014 World Cup: 2.98 billion
Brazil’s investment towards urban mobility infrastructure: $6.48 billion
Number of planned BRT systems: 20
Original price tag for Boston’s Big Dig: $2.8 billion
Final price tag for Boston’s Big Dig: $14.6 billion
Number of cars that can be parked in 2 parking spaces: 2
Number of bicycles that can be parked in 2 parking spaces: 16
Funding allocated to Austin’s Capital Metro LRT line in 2000: $740 million
Amount actually spent: $120 million
% decrease from year 2000 forecasted ridership to present day numbers: 97%
Number of Killer Weeds discovered in Toronto’s Don Valley: 50
Number of Wikipedia articles: 13 million
% of articles non-English: 78%
“Funnest” subway staircase in the world: Berlin
“Hippest” subway platform in the world: Paris
Amount of energy used to keep our homes cool and breezy in summer: 500 billlion kilowatt hours
Number of African countries 500 billion kilowatt hours can power: ALL