Urban Insanity: How To Mess Up Urban Transport
6 December 2002 - 7:00am
Here is a surefire way to mess up urban transport -- ignore trains and build downtown airports.
"We're stuck on planes and cars.In North America, planes and cars monopolize intercity travel: the dirty movers of people. Less than 1 per cent travel by rail. Meanwhile, high-speed trains have burst onto the market in Japan, Europe and Nordic countries such as Sweden and Denmark... We need to get stuck on high-speed trains."
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Planes, trains and urban insanity
Source:
The Globe and Mail, December 5, 2002
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