Bicycles and the ‘Immigrant Effect’
Finally, some research that may have positive public health implications for minorities! (Or at least recent immigrants.)
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These Streets Weren’t Made for Walkin’
Getting Americans out of their cars would be nice, but their hometowns and mean streets would still favor motorized transport.
Gentlemen, Start Your Clunkers
A stimulus package launches with low hopes for qualitatively changing the pace of car buying and little real expectation of cleaning up the air.
Pump Prices Driving More to Mass Transit
New study finds fluctuations in ridership among different cities as gasoline costs change, but will the trend toward public transit be a long journey or a short trip?
Paving the Hydrogen Highway with Aluminum
Ah, if only our vehicle fuel was as abundant as say, water. In his 2003 State of the…
The Future Is Not Plastics
Letters to the editor: Decompartmentalizing right whales, vinclozolin, bisphenol A, krill and a few other things.
Changing Lanes
A study of peak-hour traffic along the thousand-plus miles of high-occupancy vehicle routes in California shows that carpooling may not be the best solution for solving the state's — not to mention the nation's — traffic congestion problem.
Dukakis: Put Rail on Election Track
Former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis is baffled that a missing piece of America's transportation puzzle — passenger rail — isn't on the radar this election year.