Green Blog » bus http://www.green-blog.org Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:58:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Los Angeles – a car lover’s paradise? http://www.green-blog.org/2008/01/12/los-angeles-a-car-lovers-paradise/ http://www.green-blog.org/2008/01/12/los-angeles-a-car-lovers-paradise/#comments Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:32:11 +0000 Simon Leufstedt http://green-blog.org/2008/01/12/los-angeles-a-car-lovers-paradise/ ]]> Los Angeles

Did you know that about 25% of the entire size of Los Angeles is made up of roads, parking places and other areas designed for cars?

Also check out this picture, taken by the Press-Office City of Münster (Germany). It demonstrates the amount of space required to transport the same number of passengers by car, bus or bicycle.

It’s really mind-boggling.

Image credit: Marshall Astor. Image licensed under a
Creative-Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.

]]> http://www.green-blog.org/2008/01/12/los-angeles-a-car-lovers-paradise/feed/ 1 A Picture is Worth… http://www.green-blog.org/2007/11/27/a-picture-is-worth/ http://www.green-blog.org/2007/11/27/a-picture-is-worth/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:29:38 +0000 Simon Leufstedt http://green-blog.org/2007/11/27/a-picture-is-worth/ ]]> This picture is an old one, but it’s more than worth a re-run. The picture, taken by the Press-Office City of Münster (Germany), demonstrates the amount of space required to transport the same number of passengers by car, bus or bicycle. It clearly shows how sick our car fetish is.

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