Post by nickchu

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

Cost to ride taxi in Delhi: $0.90

Cost to renew Chicago transit station: $4 million

Year of Chinese tunnel bus: 2010

Year of New York tunnel bus: 1969

Speed: 60mph

Speed of Swiss “Jetman”: 200km/h

Speed of prototype HSR in Japan: 500km/h

Year scheduled for commercial operation: 2027

Number of Texas Ranger championship t-shirts donated to Africa after World Series lost: 300

Percent of 20-24 years with driver’s license in 1994: 87

2008: 82

Transit dating etiquette rules: Lots

Reasons for free transit: Lots

Youth in San Francisco: Free transit

Leading death for American children: Car accidents

Amount safer bus vs car for children: 8x

Amount more likely transit rider will meet daily exercise requirements: 3x

Net deficits for small community transit system: 50-60%

Travel time to Waterloo from Toronto by car: 1hr 15 minutes

By bus: 2hr 30 minutes

Average daily ridership on Guangzhou subway: 3.8 million

Average ridership when subway became free for Asian Games: 8 million

First TTC subway line: Interlined routes

First transit system in Vancouver: 1886

Number of years Vancouver had its streetcars before Toronto and Montreal: 2

First subway in the World: London

Year: 1863

Initial energy source: Steam

First use of automatic train operations: Philadelphia

Year: 1969

1969: First moon landing

Effects of a new transit routes: Reduce ridership + Gentrification

Letters needed to solve 27 letter phrase on Wheel of Fortune: 1