(Source: Studydriving.com via Infographlove)
Interestingly, the infographic below summarizes the data into this nugget: Americans make better cars than Japanese. No wonder GM and Ford are making a comeback. After all, this country love a good comeback.
(Source: AFP via Yahoo)
Copenhagen, one of the world’s most bicycle-friendly cities, has begun turning its extensive network of cycle paths into bike highways in an effort to push more commuters to leave their cars at home.
Considered one of Europe’s two “bicycle capitals” along with Amsterdam, Copenhagen counts more bicycles than people and cycling is so popular that its numerous bike paths can become congested.
Two-wheeler traffic jams are especially regular on the main Noerrebrogade thoroughfare used by around 36,000 cyclists a day.
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(Source TSA via You Tube via Gizmodo)
Dear Mr. Pistole , here are some responses (a mere sampling) from concerned citizens’ about this situation at airport security check points:
Image Courtesy: Land of the free? by David Vincent Wolf
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(Source: Copenhagen Cycle Chic)
A Sample from Cycle Chic Calendar 2011
This incredibly awesome Cycle Chic Calendar for 2011 by the Mikael Colville-Andersen of Copenhangen Cycle Chic would make a great holiday gift for the Treehugger, biker, Transportation geeks (like me). Oh well, I’d say go off the limb and say this: in general this is for anyone who likes beautiful things – beautiful women, beautiful city streets and beautiful bikes carrying beautiful women. Available for purchase [and in time for Christmas] over at Lulu.com.
(Source: New York Times)
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ONE is wearing a couture gown, another just a pair of red underwear. One is lugging a huge bouquet of flowering rhododendrons on his shoulder, another a suckling pig. They are all riding bicycles in the middle of streets downtown, and they are all shown from behind, having passed by, headed toward some unknown destination — a party, a garden, a pig roast.
The photographs are by Bridget Fleming, 30, who moved to the Lower East Side from Australia in 2008. She is halfway through an ambitious project to capture downtown denizens riding on two wheels down each of the approximately 200 streets below 14th Street. She posts some of the photographs on a blog, Downtown From Behind, and hopes the project, which she describes as a glamorous ode to “the heartbeat of New York,” will culminate this spring with a gallery exhibition and Web site.
Image Courtesy: Downtown from Behind
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(Source: AFP via Yahoo)
The Portuguese hosts of Friday’s NATO summit hoped to use the event to promote clean-energy and electric cars, but all eyes were on US President Barack Obama’s diesel-guzzling “Beast” instead.
As is usual when he travels, Obama’s eight-tonne armoured behemoth of a limousine was flown out to Lisbon before the US leader’s arrival, and it ferried him from the airport tarmac to his first meetings of the weekend.
Doubtless he didn’t intend the Beast’s roar to drown out his hosts’ green message, but a US presidential motorcade and its attendant escort of Secret Service SUVs do attract attention, even at the most elite gatherings.
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(Source: CBS news)
Why don’t fun and exciting things like this happen on my flights? Anyways, WordPress founder Matt Mullenwag tweeted, while flying a red eye on Virgin America from San Francisco to New York Thursday morning, that a quick wedding was conducted on his flight while the plane was over Canada. It just so happened that another passenger, Ryan McManus also broke the news via twitter while floating above ground.
The reporter who wrote about this story got an update from a Virgin America PR representative via email offering the following details:
The crew has been on rest (it was a red eye flight), but I did briefly get a hold of the pilot for the flight – and there was no “diversion” – this was part of the normal flight path. He actually was unaware of the reported celebration in the cabin (so reports that a pilot performed it are definitely not correct). That flight’s normal flight path (VX 28 SFO-JFK) does cross the Canadian border for a few minutes. I have not had reports from anyone else onboard however, so other than that I cannot confirm anything.
Note: Transportgooru.com wishes the newly weds all the very best and extends a warm virtual hug.
(Source: CSPAN via Youtube)
It is amazing how passionate this man is. While making a case for the Government to act swiftly, he took chastising the TSA to a new level for its latest nightmarish handling of the new security procedures. this easily qualifies as verbal beat down. TSA has done a poor job handling this public backlash. They ought to get a new PR/Social Media/Communications team to handle this boondoggle. Poor Michael Chertoff – the former Secretary of the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) got a bad bruising in this verbal tirade.
