Word: bourn
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...running in the gutters. Londoners have the worst average commute time at 51 minutes per person, according to a recent survey, but Amsterdam residents only do four minutes better. It did not have to be this way. "London's traffic and transport problems are just absurdly unnecessary," says Richard Bourn, spokesman for Transport 2000, an independent British organization promoting sustainable transport. City planners have long known that building new roads is not a good answer to traffic jams. Even if cities can find the space (and most European cities cannot), new road space usually only leads to new traffic, unleashing...
...elaborate and expensive system of underground tunnels and new perimeter roads has vastly improved the traffic situation in Oslo (which also has a toll cordon, though designed to finance the new roads and not to reduce traffic). But overall, "the choices are becoming more and more stark," says Bourn, of Transport 2000. This week, as the mayor of London hovers over his sword, his counterparts around the world will be watching. As for the good citizens of London, everyone seems to have his or her own plan. Joanne Cohen, co-founder of the Sod-U-Ken site, finds her neighborhood...
...When she came out, DeGeneres whisked herself to that undiscover'd country, into whose bourn few actors are willing to venture. With one Ellen episode (and perhaps a TIME cover), this funny, attractive, famous woman, who happens to be gay, inspired thousands of funny, attractive people who also happen to be gay. "I think after people see this special, they'll realize they can come and see me and they won't feel left out," she says. And it's true. Her material is about the same goofy stuff it's always been about...