April 21, 2008
In an article on the rapid consumption of oil by Americans in the New York Times, they produce this rather interesting info-graphic. Probably the most striking point is that for every American who bikes to work, five commuters walk to work, nine take public transit, twenty one ride in car pools and one hundred and fifty four drive to work alone.
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Factor in population density, land mass, the age of the automotive industries and the age of infrastructure, and only then will these charts make sense. Globalization is very cool, but we need to spend some more time understanding our differences, like environmental differences of local, in order to better compare apples to oranges. Taking a 3 hour train across an entire country in Europe vs. taking a 3 day train across the US is not the same. Managing the massive US transportation infrastructure while weighing population density is a good place to start for how long it takes to upgrade things. These aren’t shocking statistics when you put into scope the many factors that decide the American “anomaly”.
April 21st, 2008 at 9:50 am