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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 02:32 PM Aug 2014

The Case for Public Transportation, in Infographic Form

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2012/07/case-public-transportation-infographic-form/2605/

This would make a great poster. Last week the Sustainable Cities Collective posted a terrific, poster-sized graphic highlighting the benefits of public transportation to individuals and to society. The very well-made display was created, somewhat improbably, by Boris at Credit Donkey, a website whose primary function seems to be to explicate the world of credit cards to consumers. The graphic is based on research by Kelly Teh.

The link between an environmental cause and a site primarily devoted to credit cards is, I suppose, household expenses. Taking transit saves household expenses. We should enlarge and frame this, and put it on one of the incredibly blank walls (that's another story) in our offices here at NRDC:


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The Case for Public Transportation, in Infographic Form (Original Post) KamaAina Aug 2014 OP
I got rid of my car about seven years ago and since then I've been taking the bus everywhere. Louisiana1976 Aug 2014 #1
Are you still in Louisiana?! KamaAina Aug 2014 #2

Louisiana1976

(3,962 posts)
1. I got rid of my car about seven years ago and since then I've been taking the bus everywhere.
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 02:41 PM
Aug 2014

Occasionally I miss having a car but then I think of gas prices and all the other expenses that go into owning a car. And there's a nice thing about taking a bus--when the route's long enough I can read on the way.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
2. Are you still in Louisiana?!
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 02:47 PM
Aug 2014

If so, you better be in New Orleans! Even Baton Rouge buses suck donkey dicks.

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