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Just in time for today’s World Car Free Day, Forbes magazine culled some statistics about the top 10 “cleanest commutes” in the U.S based on three criteria: mass transit use, carpooling, and driving alone. Chicago makes the list, but not by much, sitting at #9 just above LA. (On mass transit use alone, we’re a little [...] This is actually New York-related, but I thought this short animation from StreetFilms was a particularly well made piece of transit advocacy. (Via Freakonomics.) After posting Matt Yglesias’s observations on mass transit safety yesterday, I had a vague recollection he wrote something along similar lines about bicycles a couple weeks ago. It turns out, I was remembering him linking to an interesting post on Streetsblog, highlighting data from NYC that as the number of bicycle riders goes up in [...] I’ve certainly overheard a couple of conversations on the El this week about the terrible events on the DC Metro earlier this week, when one train on their Red Line collided with another in Maryland. Of course, transit safety is critical, and we should all hold our transit agencies to a high standard. But Matt [...] |
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