Post by nickchu

A quick look at some of the statistics that make your cities work (or not):

Average cost of daily parking in Manhattan: $31

George Costanza: My father never paid for parking, my mother, my brother, nobody

Cont’d: A garage. I can’t even pull in there. It’s like going to a prostitute. Why should I pay, when if I apply myself, maybe I could get it for free?

Subway car wash: NY

One train load equivalent to: 280+ trucks

Equivalent: 1100 cars

Fastest scheduled train: 262mph

Lockheed Blackbird top speed: 2193 mph

US Navy: Green strike force

Number of ships, submarines and planes to be running on biofuels by 2012: 10

Fuels used: Algae oil

True cost for a gallon of petrol: $400

True cost for a gallon of algae oil: $424

Potential source of your traffic jam: 1 idiot

Traffic cure: Jam-busting

Most charitable citizens in world: Americans

Frenchman, Germans and Italians needed to equal donations of one American: 24

#1 country on Prosperity Index: Norway

New Zealand: #5

Zimbabwe: #110

Wikipedia+Toyota Corolla Engine+Mini Wheels: Airplane

First city with bike rental program: Rennes, France

Year: 1998

Number of European cities today with bike-share program: 100

% of people riding public transit in Dubai: 14

Free transit in Dubai: 600,000 riders

Free transit in Chino Valley Transit (Arizona): 2 riders

World Series Championship: Transit overload

Apple investment in renewing Chicago transit station: $4 million

Chance of me dying after this blog: 35,000,000:1