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Candela P-12 taking off | 100% electric hydrofoiling passenger vessel thumbnail
Candela P-12 taking off | 100% electric hydrofoiling passenger vessel
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Candela P-12, the world’s first electric hydrofoil passenger vessel, has completed its first test flights and begun production at our Rotebro facility. P-12 ...
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The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines
www.construction-physics.com19+ min
Tunneling is an important technology for modern civilization, as a tunnel is often the only reasonable way to create a direct path between two points. When the Hoosac tunnel was completed in 1875, it…
Should Public Transit Be Free? (Update) thumbnail
Should Public Transit Be Free? (Update)
freakonomics.com20+ min
Should Public Transit Be Free? (Update) - Freakonomics
What are roundabouts? A transportation engineer explains the safety benefits of these circular intersections
theconversation.com4 min
Whether you call them rotaries, traffic circles or roundabouts, they offer a safer alternative to the four-way stop. But the modern roundabout has been decades in the making.
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These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us
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Save $20 on an annual membership to Nebula & watch this video and more ad-free: https://go.nebula.tv/notjustbikesEngineers, planners, politicians, and advoca...
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A new generation of airships is taking to the skies
www.cnn.com5 min
Airship technology has been around for over 150 years, but fell out of favor in the 1930s. Now, interest in the low-emission, lighter-than-air transport is reviving as a sustainable solution for…
How to Design Streets for Humans—and Self-Driving Cars thumbnail
How to Design Streets for Humans—and Self-Driving Cars
www.wired.com
A new blueprint from city transportation planners and engineers, who say it's never too early to start thinking about the future.
Look Both Ways - JSTOR Daily thumbnail
Look Both Ways - JSTOR Daily
daily.jstor.org4 min
With the arrival of the automobile, governments had to scramble to find ways to protect and control pedestrian use of the road.
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Make Parking Impossible
newrepublic.com11+ min
Cars have made American cities uglier and more dangerous. Here’s the solution.
Eugene Debs Really Loved Bicycles thumbnail
Eugene Debs Really Loved Bicycles
jacobin.com1 min
Here’s a summer story you never knew you needed: an 1895 article by Eugene Debs waxing poetic about bicycles, which he said would “liberate millions” and bring “the enrapturing panorama of nature” to…
Paris Pulled Off the Dream of Many City Dwellers Around the World. It’s Been Thrilling—and Complicated. thumbnail
Paris Pulled Off the Dream of Many City Dwellers Around the World. It’s Been Thrilling—and Complicated.
slate.com
To twist a French idiom, now it’s vélo, boulot, dodo—bike, work, sleep.
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We Need a Department of Sidewalks
slate.com
Our walkways are for running, strolling, dining, delivering, protesting, loitering. It’s time for cities to give them some attention.

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