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Jul
2010
SUNDAY MORNING STATSHOT
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 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
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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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
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 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
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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Jul
2010
Sunday Morning Statshot
Number of asses seen by Southern Californian Amtrak riders on July 11: 10,000
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
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
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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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
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 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
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
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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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
Length of each car: 50 feet (15.24m)
Average number of jumpers per week in 2009: 3
Number of assaults on NY bus drivers in 2009: 51
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%
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
Length of Metro: 118 miles (189km)
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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
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
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
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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