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David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Add it to the list
I know Pombo's in thrall to the energy industry and all, but this is really un-effing-believable:
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Turns out its done by single-driver car
The Transportation Research Board has released its third annual report on Commuting in America. The news is pretty much all bad. Kevin Drum summarizes:
... the number of workers has increased by 31 million since 1980 while the number of workers who drive alone to work has increased by 34 million. Despite the population increase, carpooling is down (except in the West), transit use is down (except in the West), walking is down, and motorcycle use is down. The only bright spot is an increase in people like me, who work from home.
Here's the report's top ten list of commuting tidbits:
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The tastiest tidbits from the news
I hope you people are making good use of the blogroll at the lower left of this page. Therein lie more treasures than I could possibly discuss or link to. Here's a little sampling of what I found just since Friday:
