In the nine days from April 25 to May 3 this year, L.A.'s 311 service request system received more than 1,200 reports related to scooters — from bad parking to broken vehicles. That averages out to about 133 scooter complaints per day, or more than five an hour.
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Quotes tagged ‘Transportation’
I will die before I buy another car.
Young people continue to turn away from cars, with only 26 percent of U.S. 16-year-olds earning a driver’s license in 2017, a rite of passage that almost half that cohort would have obtained just 36 years ago, according to Sivak Applied Research. Likewise, the annual number of 17-year-olds taking dr…
It works like this: When exiting a car, instead of using the nearer hand to open the door, drivers use the farther hand. Reaching across to grab the handle causes them to turn, look backward and, more likely than not, see an oncoming cyclist.
There is a meditative quality to being on a bicycle. You must focus on the chaos that seems to envelop you. Drivers cut you off, swerving into the bike lane. Pedestrians insist on standing in the road while waiting for the light to change.
Cycle tracks will abound in utopia.
Electric bike, I think we might do an electric bike, yeah.
Somehow, as a society, we are OK with the fact that we are moving a two-pound burrito with a two-ton car,
A study [...] around a fifteen-block area of Los Angeles found the average person drove half a mile looking for parking, making for a combined annual 950,000 wasted vehicle miles [per year] in just that area. “If all this happens in one small business district, imagine the cumulative effect of all c…
The deeply unjust truth is that in thousands of cities, from London to New York to Shanghai to Delhi, transport is mainly built around cars, and thus explicitly for the benefit of the richer-than-average minority who disproportionately own them.
Right now, drivers pay to enjoy mobility, but the cost to the environment and to people’s health isn’t fully reflected in the price we pay to drive.
The bicycle is a tool to change the city.
Effective speed” means, in its simplest form, considering a vehicle’s speed as also being a factor of its cost, and thus how long we need to work to pay for it.
Obligatory helmet use reinforces the notion that cycling isn’t an everyday way to get about, but a specialist pursuit needing safety equipment, which makes it less appealing.
I loathe the bus. There has to be a more dignified mode of transportation.
The truck offers a transmission that requires no shifting of gears with regenerative braking that provides “basically infinite” brake life per Tesla.
Automated subway systems are becoming more common around the world. Some systems allow fully automated operation, from operating the doors to detecting obstructions on the track and handling emergency situations. But a fully automated multi-modal transit system — from train to car — would be a first…
Our airports, bridges, water tunnels, power grids, rail systems—our nation's entire infrastructure—is crumbling, and we aren't doing anything about it. Former secretary of transportation Ray LaHood knows all about this and got it right when he said, "If we are going to have safe transportation syste…
Each form of transport not only carries, but translates and transforms the sender, the receiver, and the message. The use of any kind of medium or extension of man alters the patterns of interdependence among people, as it alters the ratios among our senses.