A QUICK LOOK AT SOME OF THE STATISTICS THAT MAKE YOUR CITIES WORK (OR NOT):
Number of minutes before a train is considered late in New Jersey Transit: 6 minutes
Percent of trains arriving within 6 minutes of scheduled time: 94%
Percent of trains arrived at scheduled time: 68%
Number of cities in 1940s China: 69
Number of cities in 2007 China: 670
Percent of land area occupied by cities: 4.4
Cost to alleviate traffic problem caused by a Lobster Shack: $100 million
Cost of Toronto’s planned Eglinton LRT: $4.6 billion
Money invested into America’s highway and aviation industry for past 60 years: $1.8 trillion
Percent of oil consumed by transportation demands in US: 70%
Kilometers of high speed rail to be completed or in construction in France by 2020: 2300
Number of collisions and derailments on Japan’s Tokaido Shinkansen’s trains since its inception in 1964: 0
Cost of Beijing-Shanghai HSR corridor: $32.5 billion USD
Number of years to required to complete: 4
Liters of waters SC2 and True Alaska Bottling has right over for export: 10.9 billion
Annual income for Sitka – the nearby city: $26 million
Traffic increase on Interstate Highways between 1980 to 2006: 150%
Capacity increase on Interstate Highways between 1980 to 2006: 15%
Number of blogs in the world: over 200,000,000
Percent of blogs posting/tweet daily: 54% bloggers
Length exclusive busways in Bogota’s BRT: 84km
Number of enclosed stations: 100
Number one concern for 19th century urban planners: horse shit
Estimated amount of shit in London by 1950: 9 feet deep
Estimated amount of shit (garbage) produced by an American everyday: 4.39 pounds