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...collective intervention, confronting drivers about their addiction in order to save them. Bertrand Delanoë, the mayor of Paris, has launched a campaign against traffic jams, known as bouchons (also the word for the cork of a wine bottle). His first major act has been to impose new bus and bike lanes on busy boulevards, squeezing out car space and increasing average bus speeds by 3 km/h. Traffic lights in London are being tweaked to favor pedestrians. And Zurich has imposed a zero-sum parking policy: no new garages can be built without first eliminating parking somewhere else...
...their license number. But car ownership actually rose: drivers bought a second car with different plates so that they could drive every day. There are a few success stories, though. The tram system in Strasbourg has become a model for Europe. A decade after its construction, the number of bus commuters has stayed constant and 190,000 additional people now take the tram each day. An 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...
...long history. “The TMNTijuana Bible” falls under the category of hentai, a pornographic subset of Japanese anime and manga. Janicak explains that hentai is a socially acceptable genre in Japan—so much so that businessmen often read it on the bus. The popularity of hentai is such that a rudimentary Google search on the topic yielded a massive 5,500,000 results. Links included sites promoting XXX videos and featuring erotic pictures of everything from Disney’s Ariel to Dragonball...
...true story. But by visiting places and speaking with the people who live amidst a particular conflict on a day-to-day basis, one can gain an understanding of a situation that is nuanced enough to step outside those ideological boxes. Suddenly, a bombing at a Tel Aviv bus station is not just a sad event that happened halfway around the world, it is a tragedy that occurred on my last night in Israel—as horrific and real as the news that the World Trade Center had been attacked. Although I didn’t come away with...
...That perception was shattered last Wednesday morning at a rest stop five kilometers north of Vang Vieng. Around 8:30 a.m., the gunmen?as many as 30, say witnesses?jumped out from behind bushes along the road. Waving their guns, they stopped a crowded public bus, several cars, a tractor and the two Europeans who were heading north on a bike trip. Survivors claim the gunmen fired M-16s and grenades from rocket launchers, then stepped over fallen bodies and executed the wounded. The two Europeans, who have yet to be identified, tried desperately to flee on their mountain bikes...