Driving in isolation, in big machines, and on a lot of pavement

February 6th, 2008

Driving in isolation, in big machines, and on a lot of pavement

Simon on a few our transportation options -

This “picture, taken by the Press-Office City of Münster (Germany), demonstrates the amount of space required to transport the same number of passengers by car, bus or bicycle.”

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Update - I’ve re-posted this and re-framed it in terms of energy & carbon issues here.

Categories: Liberal individualism · Solidarity

2 responses so far ↓

1 Isolation’s Culprit « City of God // Feb 7, 2008 at 8:02 pm

[...] here have sort of drifted into the topics of social isolation and anomie. I think the evidence in this photo is pretty damning as far the automobile’s culpability. Why do places like Mississauga [...]
2 Parking spaces: Transport and land priorities | Toban Black // Sep 23, 2009 at 11:52 pm

[...] (Here is a larger version of the second image shown there.) [...]