A quick look at some of the things that make your cities work (or not): HOLIDAY EDITION First country to celebrate the new year: Kiribati First major city: Auckland, New Zealand Last: Pago Pago, Samoa First year Christmas legalized as a holiday: 1870 Number of finalists for NY’s taxi contest: 3 New York subway poetry:...
A quick look at some of the things that make your cities work (or not): Creative class: Innovation adverse Future cities: Inclusion 25th 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...
A quick look at some of the things that make your cities work (or not): No pant’s day: Underwear everywhere Pantless subway ride: 44 cities Participants: 5000 Pantless subway ride: New York style Next event: Sunday, January 9, 2011 Telstar Logistics: Free illegal loading zone parking Parking pet peeve: Empty shopping carts in parking spots...
A quick look at some of the things that make your cities work (or not): World’s first highway integrated building: Japan’s Gate Tower Building Toyota’s Segway: Winglet Max speed: 6km/h Max speed of world’s first electric motorcycle, Enertia: 72km/h Range: 72km Range of hydrogen fuel bus: 400km Cost: $2 million Time to charge: 6 minutes...
A quick look at some of the things that make your cities work (or not): Number of Americans traveling 50+ miles for Thanksgiving: 42 million Number of turkeys eaten: 226 million Pounds consumed: 736 million Number of cities with Google Transit: 500+ Cost of LRT compared to BRT in Tampa, Florida: 2.5 x more expensive...
A quick look at some of the statistics that make your cities work (or not): Star-gazing transit style: Grand Central Terminal Earthquake + train tracks: Spaghetti tracks Beijing cabs attached with GPS device: 33,000 Days to build hotel in Shanghai: 6 Days expected to build Sagrada Familia (ongoing): 52,560 Cost of transit service for transit...
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 Cont’d: A garage. I can’t even pull in there. It’s like going to a prostitute. Why should I pay,...
A quick look at some of the statistics that make your cities work (or not): Special Toronto Edition Toronto’s nickname: Hogtown Hogtown’s new mayor: Rob Ford Political ambitions: Derail gravy train Personal vehicle tax: Scrapped Potential money saved: $60 Municipal land transfer tax: Scrapped Potential money saved: $1,000’s Garbage collection: Outsourced War on cars: Scrapped...
A QUICK LOOK AT SOME OF THE STATISTICS THAT MAKE YOUR CITIES WORK (OR NOT): Percent of Mumbai to be covered with cars by 2030: 25% Solution: Tata Tower Vertical parking spots available: 4050 One day attendance in Shanghai Expo 2010: 1,000,000 Size: 5 square kilometers Population Density: 200,000 persons per square kilometer Number of...
A QUICK LOOK AT SOME OF THE STATISTICS THAT MAKE YOUR CITIES WORK (OR NOT): Tons of Albertan oil sands to make a barrel of oil: 2 STM’s (Montreal) average railcar age: 36 Bus+Plants: Busroots Capacity of TTC subways: 30,000/25,500 Number of delays on subway in 2009: >1000 Hours of delay: 119 hours Cost of...