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Pretty fascinating map of a different kind of pollution: noise. This shows the relative decibels surrounding airports and highways. Yellow to red to blue gets louder and louder.
See the whole map of the entire United States here.
Basically, only Maine looks cool.
Speed Kills, dawg.
The map is pretty self-explanitory.
Click to see it on the National Coalition for Safer Roads site
The 10 Cities with the most speed-related fatal crashes
Zero Car Households taken from the Reconnecting America website. Data from the US Census’ American Community Survey, so it’s actually the percentage of workers who have no access to a car.
Fascinating blog post over at streetsblog.org, showing the difference in the amount of space dedicated to parking in downtown Detroit vs Downtown Pittsburgh, and then making some leaps to understand our transportation mode share.
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