Posts tagged Germany
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Breakfast links: Full spaces, empty spaces
That’s a few bikes; Another $2 mil for the empty garage; To raze or not to raze?; Living in a city is better for the environment (but not so much in DC); Maryland’s streets are especially dangerous; Dean hates Metro delays, platform dawdlers; We’re lookin’ at you, SEPTA; PG to United: build your own soccer stadium. Keep reading…
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Be like Berlin
Paul Krugman tackles Americans’ unsustainable auto-dependent suburbs, arguing that the way out of this gas price crisis is to learn from the Germans: Keep reading…
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Visualizing different modes of transportation
Driving down a busy street, a bus seems to be about twice the size of another car, and a little bit harder to pass. But that bus is also carrying about the same number of people as all the other cars for several blocks combined. In other words, you could replace all the traffic with just two buses. If the whole lane were replaced with light rail, it could carry 18 times as many people per hour. Keep reading…