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Interestingly, oil company geologists had known for years that if you wanted to find oil you had to allow for precisely the sort of surface movements that were implied by plate tectonics. But oil geologists didn’t write academic papers; they just found oil.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
In a 2021 report, Transportation Alternatives made a pitch for reclaiming 25 percent of the street space New York had allocated to cars. What could we have? Thirteen new Central Parks. Five hundred miles of bus lanes; forty miles of busways; 38 million square feet of community space; better visibility at every intersection; a thousand miles of open streets; 5.4 million additional square feet for restaurants, businesses, and cultural institutions.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
Cities that tried free fares before the COVID-19 pandemic saw significant increases in ridership if they offered rides free to everyone but not if they targeted free fares to specific groups, the report found.
Eliminating or Reducing Transit Fares Requires Careful Planning: Transportation Research Board
Charles Pekow
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