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...escape-bent, disillusioned generation. Of course, not all the Brit nominees are on the cutting edge. One of the few Brit bands to achieve international success - including a Billboard Top 5 album - is Coldplay, who are bookmakers' favorites for Best British Group and Best Album with A Rush of Blood to the Head. But they're selling radio-friendly ballads. The U.S. music market (worth $13.4 billion in 2001) remains the most useful barometer of international success. And though Robbie Williams can sing when he's winning all the awards, America just isn't interested in him. Many Brit bands...
...will clearly be bloody." If it works, London could pave the road to the future of cities everywhere. The rationalist's dream is one day to make drivers pay for exactly the amount they contribute to traffic jams: the more they drive, the bigger their car, the closer to rush hour, the higher the price. For half a century, economists and engineers have insisted that this strategy - "congestion charging" - is the best and fairest way to reduce traffic. But driving and rationality do not always share the same lane. For just as many years, politicians have instead tried cajoling drivers...
...life. And for a brief and shining moment, it did. During the salad days of London traffic in the 1970s, when Margaret Thatcher proclaimed that "nothing should be allowed to stand in the way of the great car economy," cars blazed through London at 12-14 km/h during rush hour. Ad campaigns trumpeted the power and comfort of the private car, and people were seduced because, after all, it seemed true. If the city is the apogee of public life, the car became our private sanctuary from it. The little corner of London - or Paris or Madrid - on wheels that...
...smart card" installed in the dashboard. The charge, which varies from €0.50 to €3 depending on the time of day, is automatically deducted. Every three months, officials tweak the rates to adapt to changing traffic patterns. Driving into Singapore, the success of the system is obvious. Average rush-hour speeds are between 20 and 30 km/h. It is rare to be caught in a traffic jam caused by anything other than an accident. And still, some Singapore drivers resent the charge - which, truth be told, comes on top of already onerous car taxes. It's not unusual...
...motorway. The man behind the site, Michael Schreckenberg of Duisburg-Essen University, is now at work on the world's largest traffic-information system, using sensor-gathered data to channel travel advice to TV, radio and motorway screens. If you still can't face the rush hour, try staying home like the 2% of Europeans who now telework daily. BIKES As 30% of Dutch commuters know, for distances of less than a few kilometers cycling is the quickest way across town. Some cities help make the ride even easier. In Trondheim, Norway, for the last 10 years, an electric-powered...