Giant Robot Lasers

bmdesign:

• The energy and resources needed to build one medium-sized car could produce 100 bicycles.


• 95% of a car’s energy goes towards moving the car itself, and only 5% to moving the passenger—vs. a 30-lb. bicycle: 83% of the energy goes towards transporting the rider, not the vehicle

• Traffic congestion wastes three billion gallons of gas a year.


• AAA of Minnesota puts the annual cost at $7,754 for 2003 for a vehicle driven 15,000 miles.


• Thirty percent of morning traffic is caused by parents dropping their kids off at school.


• The design capacity for a freeway lane is roughly about 1,500 persons/hour.


• Each fully loaded 18-wheeler does nearly as much damage to a roadway as 9,600 automobiles


• The number of trips taken on foot has dropped 42% in the last 20 years.


• On average, states spent just 55 cents per person of their federal transportation funds on pedestrian projects in the years studied, less than 1% of their total federal transportation dollars. Average spending on highways came to $72 per person.

via Treehugger