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...Still, car ownership is likely to continue to rise in countries such as India for the same reasons that Western cities with great mass transit are bumper-to-bumper anyway: people buy cars for convenience and status. Kant of Tata Motors says he's sick of going to parties in India and in the West and listening to "these rich people ask about congestion and pollution and global warming. I ask them, 'Sir, will you stop using your car and start taking the bus?' People should be thanking us our cars are small. Let all those SUVs in America...
...Gandhi International Airport, after traveling 35 hours to get here, I'm not really sure whether I'm meant to be boarding flight 9W1609 to the Himalayan town of Leh or flight 9W609 to Leh, 50 minutes earlier. The airport hotel in Delhi somehow begins to bleed into the transit hotel in Singapore. The Australian dollars I was using on Monday have become American dollars and then Singapore dollars, losing a little in value with each exchange. Winter has become summer has become what feels like spring. Yet when I finally get to Ladakh, and look at all the snowcaps...
...automobiles; now transportation policy is completely divorced from transportation reality. If we're going to play I-told-you-so games, here's what I wrote last April in The Washington Post: "Traffic was awful and getting worse, idling sport-utility vehicles were contributing to global warming, mass-transit systems were crumbling, and nearly one-third of the nation's urban bridges were rated structurally deficient or obsolete. But the debate over the transportation bill avoided those pressing issues. It was all about who got what, and how much...
...Baghdad-connected highways that run through Madain make the area a natural transit point for the bombers that sow mayhem in the capital. A preferred insurgent tactic for evading detection is to construct car bombs and IEDs as close as possible to their target in or around Baghdad...
...bridges, it's roads, it's electrical systems, it's a variety of things that can happen in a man-made environment that can have a disastrous effect." A recent report by the Urban Land Institute determined that America's comparatively low investment in various transportation infrastructure - airports, public transit, railway systems, roads and bridges - has created an "emerging crisis." Of the 30 state transportation planning directors surveyed for the report, 25 said the nation's transportation infrastructure is incapable of meeting the nation's needs over the next decade...