Post by nickchu

A quick look at some of the things that make your cities work (or not):

Creative class: Innovation adverse

Future cities: Inclusion

25^th anniversary: Vancouver Skytrain

Initial design capacity: 100,000 passengers

Passengers per day in 1985: 60,000

2010: 240,000

Cost: $38 million/km CDN

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

Length: 388km

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

Japanese solar bus: Solarve

Japanese solar cycle: Sanyo

Bicycle shed of the future: Setagaya, Tokyo

Below Chinatown: Mystery

First wind turbine: 1887

% of Chinese wind power market held by Spanish wind turbine giant, Gamesa in 2005: 85

% held today: 3

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

Cost: $694

Xmas present for your transit geek: Subway wallet