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Chris Christie’s strategy for killing public transit: Lies, lies, and lies
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ripped the beating heart out of a N.Y.C.-Jersey transit project that public officials had only been planning for since, oh, 1995. At the time, he said the project would cost New Jersey too much. But guess what? He lied about the costs, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
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Americans walk less than any other industrialized nation
Here are the juicy bits of Tom Vanderbilt's new series on walking.
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Street people: In San Francisco, humans reclaim the right-of-way [SLIDESHOW]
In the City by the Bay, when the weather is nice, people have taken to lounging, cycling, and otherwise making themselves right at home -- in the middle of the streets.
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Betsy MacLean: Community development as public health
Can sustainability make sense in the inner city? Sure -- if you talk about saving money instead of saving polar bears.
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Young people drive 23 percent less, bike 40 percent more than they used to
The kids are all right: Between 2001 and 2009, the average number of miles that young’uns spent tooling around in a car dropped from 10,300 miles per capita to 7,900.
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Four cars, built by teenagers, that get over 1,000 miles per gallon
The Shell Eco-Marathon is sort of a weird contradiction: It's all about challenging students to make hyper-fuel-efficient cars, i.e. kind of the opposite of Shell's goals.
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Half-bike, half-car Velomobile goes 80 miles on 6 cents of electricity
The only thing better than a Velomobile is an electric Velomobile, which is the exact same thing, but with the addition of a kit to electrify the bike.
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How China will force Americans to drive electric cars
The sheer number of vehicles being added in Asia means a whole new level of competition for oil. It’s a competition that Asia will almost surely win, and will probably do more to drive the adoption of electric cars in the U.S. than any policy or tax credit.
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Of soccer moms and sinister U.N. plots
When communities embrace sustainability, are they actually falling victim to the evil U.N. plot known as Agenda 21? A visit to a simple town meeting in New England reveals the surprising truth.
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Facebook for cities: A social network for building better neighborhoods
Neighborland, an online platform born from an experiment in street art, helps residents cook up smart ideas for improving their communities, then gives those ideas wings.
