transportation
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Our energy-gulping industrial food system revealed in eight bullet points
New York Times recently ran Stephen Budiansky's op-ed hailing the energy efficiency of the industrial food system. The reality is much more complex
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Fewer and fewer young people are driving — but why?
American teenagers simply don't drive as much as they used to. But should we really chalk it up to the internet and the digital revolution?
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Why our railways suck (in two graphs)
The Amtrak mess that left commuters stranded this week just goes to show you transit just isn't as reliable. People prefer to drive. Except not.
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‘iPod zombie’ walkers are threatening the lives of innocent SUV drivers
I saw a 17-walker pileup just this morning on the way to work. Twisted limbs, spilled lattes, tangled earbud cords. It was horrific.
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Walk Score team unveils Transit Score and two more apps
First there was Walk Score, the web tool that calculates how walkable a neighborhood is and ranks it on a 100-point scale. Today the same developers release Transit Score, an app that ranks how well-served a location is by buses and rail lines.
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Urban guerrillas 'fix' São Paulo streets during World Cup
Bicycling and pedestrian activists in São Paulo, Brazil, engage in do-it-yourself street painting. What better time than when the entire country is watching TV?
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How much do you spend on transport? New web app aims to show you
The cost of a home is easy to keep in mind. The cost of getting to and from it is not. A new web tool aims to shed light on transportation costs and nudge Americans away from sprawl.
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New Walk Score assumes you won’t swim to the grocery store
A great tool gets better.
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Be more like Manhattan to save the earth, and don’t go halfway
The greenest place to live is a dense city like New York, David Owen argues in his book Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability. We chat about urban vs. rural living and pitfalls of "decorative transit" and "density light."
