News: Singing While Driving, When Nixon Rode BART, Seattle Streetcar, London Crossrail TOD, Portland Apartment Parking
August 17, 2012
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Research: Effects of Singing on Driving Performance Accident Analysis and Prevention This study aimed to investigate how singing while driving affects driver performance. Twenty-one participants completed three trials of a simulated drive concurrently while performing a peripheral detection task (PDT).. Read On |
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San Francisco: When Nixon Rode BART San Francisco Chronicle I have no idea if anyone else is going to find this fascinating, but I can't think of many cooler Let's Go to the Morgue! areas to explore than Richard Nixon riding BART in 1972... Read On |
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Bay Area: Broadway Shuttle Gets More Funding East Bay Express Oakland's free Broadway Shuttle program is sticking around for at least another couple years, and beginning in 2013 the green buses will cruise downtown streets for three more hours each weekday evening... Read On |
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Seattle: First Hill Streetcar Moves Forward Seattle Post Intelligencer The Seattle Department of Transportation continues to make progress on the First Hill Streetcar. Seattlepi.com recently published photos of new tracks alreayd being installed on Broadway and on Yesler Way... Read On |
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International: Crossrail a Ticket to Economic Growth Planetizen The Crossrail train service being built in London will not only drastically decrease commuter travel times, it is also expected to catalyze the transformation of areas along its route, reports Graham Norwood... Read On |
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Portland: No Room for Parking at New Apartments Oregon Public Broadcasting (via GB) Apartment buildings are going up all over Portland, this summer. The construction is a positive trend in the sluggish economy. But nearly two-thirds of the recent projects are going up without any parking places... Read On |
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China: Nation's Unlivable Cities Planetizen We get it, China's cities are big and getting bigger. But what's it like to live there? Isaac Stone Fish takes a closer look at the quality of life in Chinese cities, and finds them almost uniformly monolithic and unlivable... Read On |
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International: Asian Cities Facing Urban Timebomb China Post Asian nations must act quickly to protect their cities from flooding and other natural disasters as rapid urbanization raises environmental risks, the Asian Development Bank said Wednesday. .. Read On |
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National: New York Chases Silicon Valley Bloomberg New York City's ambitions to challenge Silicon Valley as a technology center are taking root on a narrow isle in the East River, where Cornell University is building a $2 billion campus and startup incubator... Read On |
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International: Azerbaijan Plans 5 More Cities Trend.AZ The State Committee for Urban Planning and Architecture has identified companies that will make up master plans for several cities in Azerbaijan, the committee said on Thursday... Read On |
