04
Jul

2010

SUNDAY MORNING STATSHOT

A QUICK LOOK AT SOME OF THE STATISTICS THAT MAKE YOUR CITIES WORK (OR NOT):



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11
Jul

2010

Sunday Morning Statshot

Year Leonid Murlyanchik started building his own personal subway: 1984

Passenger capacity for his fully-automated cars: 3-4

Distance Leonid can tunnel per day: 1m

Distance tunnel boring machine can tunnel per day: 15m

Island wide speed limit on Bermuda: 35km/hr

Number of Chinese cities with population over 1 million in 2030: 220

Number of Chinese cities to have rapid transit systems by then: 170

World’s first planned indoor city: Astana, Kazakhstan

Number of US cities ranked in top 25 in world: 0

Number of Canadian cities ranked in top 25: 4

Number of people killed by terrorism in US since 1960: > 5000

Amount of people dying of poor air quality in China: 400,000

Number of death’s in WWII: 50 million

Average Traffic Speed in New Delhi in 2010: 15km/hr

Average Traffic Speed in New Delhi in 2011: 5 km/hr

Average Walking Speed: 5km/hr

Average length of time added to commute as a result of a traffic jam in Moscow: 2.5 hrs

Amount of Americans taking a subway each day: 14 million

Number of times safer taking a bus is instead of a car: 79x

Amount of carbon emission reduction if 1 in 5 Americans took public transit: 20%

Reduction in bicycle deaths after Ontario enforced wearing of helmets: 52%

Canada’s first public transit service: Ferry Service in Dartmouth Nova Scotia 250 years ago

Kilometers of TTC Bus Routes: 7,206.1

Kilometers of Streetcar Routes:189.3

Kilometers of Subway: 61.9

Number of Transit Agencies in Canada: >100

Number 1 Transit Agency in Canada in terms of ridership: TTC

Number 1 activity on the web in 2010: Social Media

Number 1 activity on web before 2010: Porn

Money that LeBron generates in Cleveland: 48 million per year

When his team makes the playoffs: 150 million per year

Officially the World’s Saddest/Angriest Man as of July 8, 2010: Dan Gilbert



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18
Jul

2010

Sunday Morning Statshot

Percent of energy the global industrial food system accounts for in worldwide fuel consumption: 21%

Average distance an ingredient in a meal in the US is grown away from home: 1500 miles

Number of new car and truck dealers in 2006: 22000

Number of new car and truck dealers in 2010: 18000

Miles of paved road in US: 4 million

Miles of Subway in US: 769

Max operating speed of Chicago’s subways: 70mph

Current operating speed due to fragile rails: 15mph

Cost of Maintenance Required in US subways: $78 billion

Cost of Metrolinx’s region-wide transportation plan for Greater Golden Horseshoe (Southern Ontario): $50 billion

Cost of replacing Montreal’s 765 subway cars: $3 billion

Cost of a bus fare for Centenarians in Cowichan Valley Regional District: Free

Facebook’s world rank if considered a country: 4th largest nation in world

Estimated world population in 2014: 7.14 billion

Estimated number visitors to Brazil’s 2014 World Cup: 2.98 billion

Brazil’s investment towards urban mobility infrastructure: $6.48 billion

Number of planned BRT systems: 20

Original price tag for Boston’s Big Dig: $2.8 billion

Final price tag for Boston’s Big Dig: $14.6 billion

Number of cars that can be parked in 2 parking spaces: 2

Number of bicycles that can be parked in 2 parking spaces: 16

Cyclist “categories” found in Coast Mountain Bus Company’s bike manual: “The Teen”; “The Novice” and “The Bike Lunatic”

Funding allocated to Austin’s Capital Metro LRT line in 2000: $740 million

Amount actually spent: $120 million

% decrease from year 2000 forecasted ridership to present day numbers: 97%

Number of Killer Weeds discovered in Toronto’s Don Valley: 50

Number of Wikipedia articles: 13 million

% of articles non-English: 78%

“Funnest” subway staircase in the world: Berlin

“Hippest” subway platform in the world: Paris

Amount of energy used to keep our homes cool and breezy in summer: 500 billlion kilowatt hours

Number of African countries 500 billion kilowatt hours can power: ALL



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25
Jul

2010

Sunday Morning Statshot

Number of asses seen by Southern Californian Amtrak riders on July 11: 10,000

Number of days to travel from Beijing to London on China’s new proposed transcontinental high-speed rail link: 2

Cost of high-speed rail tracks: 3x more than conventional

Number of car sales in 2002-2003 in India: 6.8 million

Number of car sales in 2009-2010 in India: 12 million

Most despised type of transit rider: “Seat Hog”

Cost of being a seat-hog in New York: $50

Number of complaints on NJ Transit in 2010: 12,530

Amount of money NJ Transit spends on customer service courses for drivers: $500,000

Average monthly downtown parking cost in Calgary (the most expensive in Canada): $453.38

Average monthly parking in Manhattan: $930

Common word to describe the construction of new highways: Investing

Common word to describe construction of new transit lines: Subsidizing

Funding mechanism for many American public transportation systems: State Gasoline Tax

Reason for potential bus fare increase in Rhode Island: Declining State Gasoline Tax

Shortfall experienced by Guam Regional Transit Authority: $400,000

Annual savings of a public transit rider: $9343

Number 1 complaint on TransJakarta Busway in Indonesia: Female Sexual Harrassment

Number of sexual harassments on bus and rail passengers in England annually: 12646

Average per day: 35

Number of seats reserved for women riding transit in Pakistan: 2

Percent over budget for average rail projects: 40%

Percent in which train ridership is overestimated: 109%

Average transit load: 1/6 of vehicle’s capacity

Highest paid city government position in Madison County, Wisconsin’s: Local Bus Driver – John E. Nelson

His annual salary: $159,258

Long Island Railroad conductor, Thomas J. Redmond’s 2010 salary: $239,148

Amount of money Mr. Redmond is making more than the transit authority’s CFO: $4000

Cost of crime on public transportation in England: 1.5 billion pounds

Year when New York proposed a subway line on Second Avenue: 1929

Year that it is scheduled to open: 2016



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01
Aug

2010

Sunday Morning Statshot

A QUICK LOOK AT SOME OF THE STATISTICS THAT MAKE YOUR CITIES WORK (OR NOT):

Number of people partying on Germany’s A40/B1 Autobahn: 3 million

Miles of highway closed for the celebration: 60 km

Acres of environmentally sensitive and agricultural lands protected by Ontario’s Greenbelt: 1.8 million

Number of cities that Vancouver’s Transit Agency – Translink –  operates in: 21

Passengers per day on Translink’s newest rapid transit system – Canada Line: 100,000

Passengers per day on Canada Line during Olympics: 228,000

Passengers per day on Guangzhou’s BRT: 800,000

Percent of trips to airport through Canada Line: 15% – number 1 in North America

Fine for eating on Washington’s Metro Subway: $100

Number of deaths attributed to NJ Transit Trains this week: 2

Miles of traffic in Sao Paulo: 130

Number of helicopters used to beat peak hour traffic:  469

Number of pilots used to manage helicopters: 820

Number of heli-pads: 420

Number of bullfighting season ticket holders in Barcelona: 400

Number of bullfighting season ticket holders in Madrid: 19,000

Value of LRT market by 2015: $7.5 billion

Biggest LRT network in Euorpe: Germany

Germany’s largest tram network: Berlin

Kilometers of track: 190

Number of stops: 800

Passengers per day: 560,000

Percent of Americans supporting expanded public transportation systems: 82

Initial ridership projections for Charlotte’s LRT line: 8,000 per day

Number of trips per day for Charlotte’s LRT line: 16,000

Number of jobs created by highway infrastructure projects per billion dollars: 8,781

Number of jobs created by public transit projects per billion dollars: 16,419

Max speed of Amtrak train: 240km/h

Average speed: 112km/h

Percent of the earth’s surface that can be covered by a locust swarm: 20%

Percent of American couples married that met via social media: 12.5%



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08
Aug

2010

Sunday Morning Statshot

A QUICK LOOK AT SOME OF THE STATISTICS THAT MAKE YOUR CITIES WORK (OR NOT):

Length of NY’s subways: 10 car trains

Weight of each car: 40 tons

Length of each car: 50 feet (15.24m)

Top speed: 45 mph (72km/hr)

Average number of jumpers per week in 2009: 3

Number of assaults on NY bus drivers in 2009: 51

Number getting spat on: 53

Average days taken off: 64

What you call angry transit riders suffering from declining mass transit services: “Aisle Rage”

Launch date for Toronto’s bike share program: May 11, 2011

First woman to pitch professionally in 3 countries: Eri Yoshida

Number of >8 storey buildings in 1980 Shanghai: 121

Number of >8 storey buildings in 2005 Shanghai: 10045

Cost of a Manhattan parking space: $225,000

Average cost of an apartment in Manhattan: $1.3 million

Percent of Mexico City’s inhabitants living in illegal and informal housing: 60%

Number of people added to the city of New York’s population per hour by 2015: 12

Number of people added to the city of Lagos’ population per hour by 2015: 58

Number of city regions exceeding population of 1 million in 1825: 0

Number of city regions exceeding population of 1 million today: 450

Percent reduction in car use in London central since congestion fee implementation: 21%

Spatial-planning instrument used in Johannesburg to permit segregation of racial groups: Group Areas Act of 1950

Population of the all-white Johannesburg during apartheid: 250,000

Post apartheid population of Johannesburg : 3.25 million

Population of Sandton – the new financial core of Johannesburg: 160,000 people

Population Density of Sandton: 1500 people per square km

Population of Alexandra – impoverished black neighbourhood: 350,000 people

Population Density of Alexandra: 45000-81000 people per square km

Cost to ride the new Delhi Metro: 20 cents to 67 cents

Cost to build: $6.55 billion

Length of Metro: 118 miles (189km)



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15
Aug

2010

Sunday Morning Statshot

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


Width of Eglinton tunnel: 6m


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


Length of HSR: 1318km


Scheduled opening: 2012


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


Average speed: 29km/hr


PPHPD: 45000


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



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