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While entrenched habits such as car commuting are hard to shift, times of disruption can offer an effective moment to change mobility behaviour – in part because people forced to try a new habit may discover it has unexpected advantages.
12 Best Ways to Get Cars Out of Cities – Ranked by New Research
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Suburban lawmakers in Congress vigorously protected the long-standing ban on a commuter tax, so 66 percent of the income generated in Washington was taxed in Maryland and Virginia, where the bulk of federal workers made their homes. In addition to churches, schools, and other institutions that do not pay taxes anywhere, D.C. officials also could not tax land owned by the federal government, embassies, and nonprofits. Fully 42 percent of District land thus did not contribute to city coffers.
Chocolate City
Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
In fact, the science is robust, and one of the chief scientists behind it is Chris Goldfinger. Thanks to work done by him and his colleagues, we now know that the odds of the big Cascadia earthquake happening in the next fifty years are roughly one in three. The odds of the very big one are roughly one in ten.
The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest
newyorker.com
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