Best sentences I read this week: Vol. 11
“Citi expects this combination of factors to slow the power sector’s use of coal, pointing to a possible flattening or peaking before 2020, although many global energy agencies continue to expect high coal demand in the years to come.”
“In a poll of 875 likely voters in New York City’s upcoming mayoral election, 67 percent of respondents (including 65 percent of those who own cars) said they support “bringing protected bike lanes and pedestrian islands” to their neighborhoods, polling firm Penn Schoen Berland showed Monday.”
–67 PERCENT OF NEW YORKERS BACK BETTER BIKING & WALKING by Michael Andersen
“Calgary found that by adopting a denser growth pattern that used 25% less land, it could save $11 billion in capital costs alone.”
“EVERYBODY who knows me knows that I love cycling and that I’m also completely freaked out by it.”
–Is It O.K. to Kill Cyclists? by DANIEL DUANE
“Interestingly, this visionary imagination works in conjunction with a hyperawareness of reality.”
–Why Creative People Sometimes Make No Sense
“A demand for roads can be tied to the design of a community. Seeking efficiencies in a system designed for automobiles through the provision of additional road capacity does not resolve the underlying issue. If traffic congestion is to be ameliorated, supply shouldn’t be addressed. Address demand. By focusing on supply (i.e. building more roads), and not demand (i.e. augmenting a city to lessen vehicular demand), the production of an auto-centric city continues.”
–The Irony of Ring Roads by STEVEN SNELL
“In the third year of his term, Peñalosa challenged Bogotáns to participate in an experiment. As of dawn on 24 February 2000, cars were banned from streets for the day. It was the first day in four years that nobody was killed in traffic. Hospital admissions fell by almost a third. The toxic haze over the city thinned. People told pollsters that they were more optimistic about city life than they had been in years.”
–http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/01/secrets-worlds-happiest-cities-commute-property-prices by Charles Montgomery