Mini cars, mini cities.
小汽車與小城市。
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“A driver doing a year’s typical 8,500 miles of motoring could save almost £1,000 in petrol costs at today’s prices and around two tonnes in CO2 emissions.”
Rod McKie, CEO of Welcome Break, on switching to electric cars. Read the full article on This Big City.
「一般駕駛每年車行距離約8500英里，以現行價格計算，可省下約1000英鎊的燃料費，亦可減少約兩公噸的二氧化碳排放量。」
Welcome Break公司執行長Rod McKie論及電動車的效益。全文請見《城事》。
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Los Angeles without cars. Sounds fictional, but for one weekend, it wasn’t.
“There was a chance for one of the most maligned transportation cities in America to get some much-needed kudos but instead what we got was 56 hours of an ultimately intangible alternate universe where there are no cars and, strangely, there are no people.”
Theodore Brown on Carmageddon
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Americans spend almost $9000 a year on their cars. Is it worth it?
Congestion Pricing: Not Coming Soon to a US City Near You
In 2007, the United States Department of Transportation selected five metropolitan areas it considered suitable for congestion charging projects. The idea was simple – charge private road users to enter city centres, reducing congestion and raising funds in the process. But four years on and progress is less than positive. New York city has twice thrown out plans for a congestion charge, and San Francisco is waiting until 2015 to begin its trial period. When the most enthusiastic response involves waiting four years, you know it’s not good news…
Paris to Launch the World's First Municipal Electric Vehicle Hire Scheme
Parisians will soon be zipping round Charles de Gaulle Etoile in little blue bubble-like cars, as the world’s first municipal electric vehicle (EV) hire scheme gets underway. Mayor Bernard Delanoë has pioneered the €110 million Autolib initiative to complement the Vélib bicycles…
A Different Breed of Electric Vehicle for North American Cities
With more than 2 billion cars expected to be on roads within the next 20 years, it is vital that we switch to more environmentally friendly equivalents. But the electric vehicle is more than just a full-size car with a hefty price tag.
The amount of traffic on the street you live can impact the amount of friends you have in the world, according to this video based around the work of Donald Appleyard.
His studies on three different streets in San Francisco showed that just the presence of cars, along with the noise and risk they introduce, crushes the sense of community in an area.
This video comes via Street Films who have loads of great content worth watching.
By Joe Peach
“We can’t just go out tomorrow digging up roads and knocking down houses to build Cycling Super Highways and likewise we can’t go on living in low-density suburbia dependent on the car for all of our journeys. We really have to think seriously about how we plan, build and sustain our towns and cities into the future.”
Transport planner Rachel Smith imagines a world where extra wide cycle lanes rule the road. Download a PDF of her work here.
We’ll never live to see a car-free Los Angeles, but thanks to Ross Ching’s computer wizadry, we can at least find out what it might look like.
By Joe Peach
