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...true that we've been putting off buying cars for nearly two years as unemployment has climbed and credit has been choked off. (Showroom traffic is increasing, notes Summit Auto's Buscher; it's financing that continues to lag.) But that also means that we'll be readier to buy when credit starts to loosen. Even if this recession lingers longer than expected, results will pick up substantially in 2011. Analyst Luedeman predicts that sales in North America will bottom out at 8.4 million units this year (others say slightly higher), then jump to 10.2 million...
...friendly. Thanks to its density and public transit, the city has a per capita carbon footprint 71% smaller than the U.S. as a whole. With more than 8.2 million people calling New York home, surpassing a historical high set in the 1950s, the city's infrastructure - its crowded subways, traffic-choked streets, aging water mains - is being pushed past its limits. City planners realize that New York is on track to gain an additional 900,000 people by 2030. If that growth isn't managed properly, the result will be an environmental and economic mess. "New York is growing...
...line on Manhattan's far East Side. Those multibillion-dollar improvements were to be paid for in part by implementing congestion pricing in Manhattan - charging drivers to enter the most crowded part of the city. As an added benefit, congestion pricing would have helped unclog New York's sclerotic traffic, which now costs the city $13 billion a year in lost economic productivity and dirties New York's air, which is more polluted than that of any other city in the country besides Los Angeles. "It's an essential idea," says Steven Cohen, executive director of Columbia University's Earth...
...Amsterdam and bought another business-class fledgling, L'Avion, to gain access to Paris and slots at Orly and share costs and culture. BA doesn't fly to those places from New York City, and it sure as heck isn't going to undercut its own lucrative business-class traffic to London...
...Amsterdam and Paris, business passengers make up 65% to 70% of the traffic, a percentage that works for OpenSkies and points to opportunities in other business centers like Frankfurt and Milan--if BA gives the airline enough support. BCG's Egan, a consumer-products specialist, says that consumer awareness of OpenSkies is limited and that as a boutique brand in a large company, it is always vulnerable. "All my clients have little brands like this. But the problem is, Can you keep incubating them...