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A quick look at some of the statistics that make your cities work (or not):
Average cost of daily parking in Manhattan: $31
George Costanza: My father never paid for parking, my mother, my brother, nobody
One train load equivalent to: 280+ trucks
Fastest scheduled train: 262mph
Lockheed Blackbird top speed: 2193 mph
Number of ships, submarines and planes to be running on biofuels by 2012: 10
True cost for a gallon of petrol: $400
True cost for a gallon of algae oil: $424
Potential source of your traffic jam: 1 idiot
Most charitable citizens in world: Americans
Frenchman, Germans and Italians needed to equal donations of one American: 24
#1 country on Prosperity Index: Norway
Wikipedia+Toyota Corolla Engine+Mini Wheels: Airplane
First city with bike rental program: Rennes, France
Number of European cities today with bike-share program: 100
% of people riding public transit in Dubai: 14
Free transit in Dubai: 600,000 riders
Free transit in Chino Valley Transit (Arizona): 2 riders
World Series Championship: Transit overload
Apple investment in renewing Chicago transit station: $4 million
Chance of me dying after this blog: 35,000,000:1
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