Urban Insanity: How To Mess Up Urban Transport

Here is a surefire way to mess up urban transport -- ignore trains and build downtown airports.

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December 6, 2002, 7:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"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."

Thanks to Justin Filuk

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