Post by Gondola Project
A quick look at some of the things that make your cities work (or not):
Creative class: Innovation adverse
25th anniversary: Vancouver Skytrain
Initial design capacity: 100,000 passengers
Passengers per day in 1985: 60,000
Cost of Hong Kong’s Kwun Tong subway line: $280 million/km USD
Cost of New York’s Second Avenue subway line: $1.2 billion/km USD
Cost of Iran’s urban rail plan: $20 billion USD
Cost of hitting a road snowman: Your job
Worst commute in US: San Jose, California
Best commute in US: Eugene, Oregon
Explaining lackluster transit usage in North America: Lack of autonomy
Videos + Building: Animated building
Bicycle shed of the future: Setagaya, Tokyo
% of Chinese wind power market held by Spanish wind turbine giant, Gamesa in 2005: 85
Number of wind turbines Gamesa sells more today than in 2005: 2x
Transpo geek checklist: Honeymooning in Curitiba
Cost-effective city living in Beijing: Egg
Xmas present for your transit geek: Subway wallet
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