Year Leonid Murlyanchik started building his own personal subway: 1984
Passenger capacity for his fully-automated cars: 3-4
Distance Leonid can tunnel per day: 1m
Distance tunnel boring machine can tunnel per day: 15m
Island wide speed limit on Bermuda: 35km/hr
Number of Chinese cities with population over 1 million in 2030: 220
Number of Chinese cities to have rapid transit systems by then: 170
World’s first planned indoor city: Astana, Kazakhstan
Number of US cities ranked in top 25 in world: 0
Number of Canadian cities ranked in top 25: 4
Number of people killed by terrorism in US since 1960: > 5000
Amount of people dying of poor air quality in China: 400,000
Number of death’s in WWII: 50 million
Average Traffic Speed in New Delhi in 2010: 15km/hr
Average Traffic Speed in New Delhi in 2011: 5 km/hr
Average length of time added to commute as a result of a traffic jam in Moscow: 2.5 hrs
Amount of Americans taking a subway each day: 14 million
Number of times safer taking a bus is instead of a car: 79x
Amount of carbon emission reduction if 1 in 5 Americans took public transit: 20%
Reduction in bicycle deaths after Ontario enforced wearing of helmets: 52%
Canada’s first public transit service: Ferry Service in Dartmouth Nova Scotia 250 years ago
Kilometers of TTC Bus Routes: 7,206.1
Kilometers of Streetcar Routes:189.3
Number of Transit Agencies in Canada: >100
Number 1 Transit Agency in Canada in terms of ridership: TTC
Number 1 activity on the web in 2010: Social Media
Number 1 activity on web before 2010: Porn
Money that LeBron generates in Cleveland: 48 million per year
When his team makes the playoffs: 150 million per year
Officially the World’s Saddest/Angriest Man as of July 8, 2010: Dan Gilbert
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Here’s another: “Hundreds rescued from overheated trains in Germany”. “http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100711/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_overheated_train
Question. “What are we going to do, after urban gondoli (finally) gets established, to prevent the same headline being applied to our technology?” It does not take a rocket scientists to appreciate that that a gondola, stranded under a blazing-hot desert sun, won’t turn into a people cooker in minutes. And a puny bank of solar cells running a fan just won’t cut it.
Which brings us to two critical questions:
First, how to get heat and AC into cabins; and
Second, how to evacuate 300 cabins in a hurry. WRT the latter, the good news is that we’ll likely be both close to the ground and under a roadway. The bad news is, ladder trucks won’t work.
Ideas?
Dave,
If the vehicles are close to the ground, it’s not really a problem. Ladder trucks, for example, would work. As for heat and AC, those problems have been solved just in the last few years and are no longer an issue.
I think we have to accept that at some point and time this will happen. As long as the strategies are in place, no problem.