The NY Times recently wrote about a crash test demonstrating that if you crash a small car into a medium-sized car, occupants of the medium-sized car fare better. Duh. The article also uncritically quotes the president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety with the conclusion that “downsizing and down-weighting [cars to save fuel] […]
mySociety.org have some cool maps showing travel times for central London. All maps show travel times to the the Department for Transport (DfT) office in central London.
This one shows areas where going by bike beats public transport if you need to get to the DfT office (note that all the areas that are not […]
The Economist of 6th December, 2007 (full story, requires login) writes about U.S. subsidies for ethanol:
In other words, the demands of America’s ethanol programme alone account for over half the world’s unmet need for cereals. Without that programme, food prices would not be rising anything like as quickly as they have been. According to the […]
The New Statesman had an article (in August) criticising the New Approach to Appraisal (Nata) rules for road building in the UK. Basically, Nata is a cost-benefit analysis framework for assessing proposals of road building projects, introduced by Labour in 1998.
The author comes down hard against Nata. He’s right in that some of the […]
unraveled has put up an urban experience photo group on Flickr
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