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- dharh, on 11/17/2009, -1/+22Oh god the BUGS. *runs screaming into the night*
- sexybobo, on 11/17/2009, -2/+18Yes nothing like showing up for work all sweaty.
- Schmich, on 11/17/2009, -1/+17For some reason the video doesn't load for me. Is it this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EMeaInns7s
- paloooz, on 11/17/2009, -0/+13- No risk of STDs
- jboitnott, on 11/16/2009, -5/+18Cities in the U.S. have a lot to learn from their South American counterparts.
- stuwanker, on 11/17/2009, -0/+11Half the world's population lives in "urban areas", not cities. And "urban" doesn't have a consistent definition across the world. So the oft-stated "Most of the world's population now lives in cities." factoid is, well, kind of crap.
- gvoakes, on 11/16/2009, -2/+12get on your bikes and ride
- capheine, on 11/16/2009, -1/+9Every city in the world should strive to be like Curitiba or Bogota when it comes to public transportation. They have that ***** down to a science.
Also, that video was way too short. I'm sure there are hundreds of other examples of things we could be doing better here in the States. - zad1, on 11/17/2009, -2/+8So Seoul's getting more fish, birds, and insects? I wouldn't mind the fish, but the last two are quite annoying to me.
- dhartin, on 11/17/2009, -2/+8yea, can't really bike a truck load of tools to a job site.
- Aroundtown27, on 11/17/2009, -0/+5What you described in your first paragraph is a very north american style mind set. Everywhere else in the world people tend to live closer to their work places and the cities are much more pedestrian and cyclist friendly. People will make environmentally friendly choices if the urban planning of their environment is done properly to encourage those choices.
For example, in my city (Calgary) almost all of the l.r.t stations have parking lots. They used to be free to park in and they would be full because people would drive to them, leave their cars and then train it into the core. Now, the city decided to charge daily for parking. Now the lots are about half full because people are driving to work instead. That is a prime example of how poor decisions by municipal governments can encourage people to make a non environmentally friendly decision. - PeachesTheCow, on 11/17/2009, -1/+6Gosh durn it. Well guess what? Most people don't take truck loads of tools to job sites.
- bmson, on 11/17/2009, -0/+5They use a really strange worldmap.
Greenland is missing and there are some strange blobs west of norway, I guess that's Iceland and 1/10 of Greenland - make7upyours06, on 11/17/2009, -2/+7what do slums have to do with public transportation?
- Bangaarang, on 11/17/2009, -0/+5Theres another America?!
- gasoline, on 11/17/2009, -0/+4The issue is that towns in the USA are pretty new (compared to, say, Rome, Amsterdam, Berlin) and built for driving, not for walking.
- PeachesTheCow, on 11/17/2009, -0/+4You're not likely to sweat much unless the route involves a lot of hills. I would suggest talking to your employer about a place to change clothes and shower. Many progressive companies already offer this - it beats a gym membership!
- rambomcfly, on 11/17/2009, -1/+5am I the only one who is now singing "Bicycle Race" by Queen
- backwardscompat, on 11/17/2009, -1/+5Rio's got it going as far as Public Transit is concerned, goodness.
Now, if you could only drink the water... - grantmoore3d, on 11/17/2009, -0/+3It's too cold to ride a bike most of the year in Canada, otherwise I would never take the car / bus. (Though some people are crazy do bike year-round)
- deathstryk, on 11/17/2009, -1/+4192 types of insects?
no thanks :( - Brendanburden, on 11/17/2009, -0/+3I think its important to point out, since they used Brazil over and over again as an example, that Rio has one of the highest murder rates, poverty rates and disparity between rich and poor. Some Brazilian cities have slums with no plumbing or waste disposal that house over 1 million people. Brazil has some very serious issues that need to be dealt with, and setting up a biking system using cell phone technology seems like an awful waste of time and money when you consider the great need for more important programs to fight poverty, crime and the lack of education.
- MMusick, on 11/16/2009, -0/+3I'm looking in Atlanta's direction.
- ephemere, on 11/17/2009, -1/+4"my leather-apointed luxury sports car"
5 words in, I already assumed "tiny dick." - brazilianwinter, on 11/16/2009, -3/+6w00t Brazil!
- collution, on 11/17/2009, -0/+2Yep
- JasonCox, on 11/17/2009, -0/+2Which specific South American cities are you referring to? I can't say the news reports many good things about South American cities, Rio being a prime example.
- HotLeper, on 11/17/2009, -1/+3By warning them not to go Detroit's way.
- centran, on 11/17/2009, -0/+2The problem is urban sprawl. It seemed like a good idea. Less health problems because people are not cramped together. Less strain on infrastructure since you can spread the loads out. Better for the environment because you have more land for trees and plants.
Opps. Everything is the direct opposite of what we thought. - heliumflash, on 11/17/2009, -1/+3Like I say in every thread regarding public transport, I'd much rather take a short bus ride and walk a bit or take a short train ride and walk a bit than drive. It would be much more relaxing
- PeachesTheCow, on 11/17/2009, -0/+2Thank you. Many people don't understand this. The same stat says that about 90% of the US is urbanized, but really, only about 15% of the US pop really lives in what I'd call "city"
- sirloxelroy, on 11/18/2009, -0/+2@Vodd9 No I didn't, that is still illegal and dangerous.
- stuwanker, on 11/17/2009, -0/+2Precisely.
- ramilehti, on 11/17/2009, -0/+2@PeachesTheCow:
Around here (Finland) it is required by law to have adequate washing and changing facilities.
Usually this means a small change room and a shower. They can be found even in most office buildings although not strictly required by the law. The nature of the work is taken into consideration within the law. - faizal5k, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1way better than poster's link...thanks bro
- Aroundtown27, on 11/18/2009, -0/+1Look at the cities they live in and how much smaller their cities are compared to ours. Also, having lived in Germany I can tell you that there are many many many more people who don't drive high end cars or even have cars at all for that matter.
- Thoric, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1I live in Brazil, and I've never even heard of those systems... Even tho Curitiba has been a very successful planned city (so successful the government actually doesn't advertise it on national TV because of the massive amount of population heading there screwing it up), it's quite an exception. The largest city in Brazil, São Paulo, actually adopted some weird laws, such as the prohibition of advertising, which combined with the already poor architecture of most of the city (save a couple of 'famous' avenues), made it look like an open-air prison.
Rio de Janeiro, is one of the most dangerous cities in the entire country. The slums there are MASSIVE (Look at it on Google Earth. You can get there faster looking the "Christ the Redeemer", which is a world famous giant statue of Jesus near there) so the crime rates are ridiculously high (My father even got kidnapped once, tho he escaped), a crushing majority of the population is dirt poor, public transportation is chaos, and I could go on.
Also, I live in the city which has the highest HDI in the entire country, and still, overnight a random person unloaded his gun on the door of a club 50 feet away from my school because he wasn't able to get in the night before.
"Dedicated bike lanes"... lol. - Moralogic, on 11/21/2009, -0/+1Yeah, can we just double the bug population instead. I already get too many japanese beetles, flies, and other bugs the way it is. If only it wasn't bees and other insects that pollinate plants...
- gsehgal1, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1Usually this is common in Third World Countries, one of the reasons being that the infrastructure is so poor that the urban areas are very difficult to access and rarely get any attention from the goverment. Therefore to have a decent lifestyle, one has to live in the cities...
- accharbs, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1Too bad the trans milenio in Bogota is full of thieves and drug addicts. Scary times man, even in the middle of the day. Works great though!
- gvoakes, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1exactly, I'm glad someone got it :)
- SteveMax, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1Public transit in Rio only works for about 10% of the city, namely the main beaches and places that tourists may want to see. On most of it, your options are either overcrowded trains or illegal vans (as in "old VW vans") that may or may not get you to your destination in one piece and with all your possessions.
- niselat, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1Even worse, they are getting more Koreans
- sirloxelroy, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1It's not much warmer here in Nebraska either. Biking with a laptop in 10 Degree F temperature is a sure way to ruin the LCD on the Laptop.
- sirloxelroy, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1I would recycle if the costs were not prohibitive. $22/Month for Garbage, over $40 per month for Recycling. What irritates me is then the recycling companies also make money or the recyclables.
- proteus8898, on 11/20/2009, -0/+1nice troll.
- sirloxelroy, on 11/17/2009, -0/+1Or Frozen, with a frozen laptop screen.
- sirloxelroy, on 11/17/2009, -1/+2Uh in most US cities it is illegal and dangerous to "Dodge Traffic" like you are saying.
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