Links of the day – January 25, 2011
- New report quantifies just how much a car commute crushes your soul | Grist
Car commutes sap your life force — that’s common knowledge. But can you quantify exactly how much, and how quickly? The Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University can. It’s just released its annual Urban Mobility Report, which includes data on how much time, money, and mental health urban-area car commuters lose to congestion every year.
- Staten Island Councilman James Oddo calls for addition of bike lanes to go through review process – NYPOST.com
Two city councilmen are pressing Mayor Bloomberg and his bike-lane-loving transportation chief to require that any new bicycle lanes go through the same exhaustive public review as other road changes.
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