Post by Gondola Project
A QUICK LOOK AT SOME OF THE STATISTICS THAT MAKE YOUR CITIES WORK (OR NOT):
Number of traffic jams on Beijing’s Friday Night: 140
You cannot get a snake to swallow an elephant: Chinese Traffic Metaphor
Coolest bike lanes: Portland, OR
Illegal bicycle parking in Copenhagen: Free oil chain and tire inflation
Number of illegally parked bicycles per day in April: 150
Illegal bicycle parking today: 30-50
% of creative class living within 500m of a subway which ride a subway: 45
% of service class living within 500m of a subway which ride a subway: 31
Reading your kindle while driving a bus: bad Idea
Cost to build Springfield’s monorail: $3 million
Cost to build Pinellas County’s theoretical monorail: $1.6 billion
Seattle’s Central Link LRT: $2.4 billion
Solution to frequent stopping: Amoeba train
% market share of hybrid vehicles worldwide: 1
Most common place to find America’s “Largest Things”: Roadside
World’s biggest catsup bottle: Collinsville, IL
How to foster transit behaviour in your child: Public Transportation Lego
How to never miss your train in Switzerland: Swisstrains.Ch
Reasons for not taking transit in LA: A lot
How to ensure your child never takes transit: 80’s pictures of New York’s subway
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