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Business
Moving On Up to the Northeast Side: Where Can You Climb the Income Ladder?
It’s time to ask yourself if your career’s in the right place—not figuratively, but physically.
Cities
Crappy Bikes Lanes: In Pictures
Anyone who has ever ridden a bicycle knows how useless bike lanes are when they are a) not enforced, b) not respected by cabbies and other...
GOOD Blog
Miles per Gallon: Soon to Be Useless
With any luck, we'll be moving on from these gas-only automobiles in the coming years and that means we'll have to find some measure for a car's...
News
U.S. Rail Infrastructure: A Slow-Moving Train
Over at Planetizen, the self-professed rail devotee Jeffrey Barg considers the slow-moving progress of rail infrastructure in the United States....
Cities
Participate in Walk to School Day this Wednesday
In 1969, 88 percent of students who lived within a mile of their grade schools got there by bike or on foot. Today, less than 16 percent do.
GOOD Blog
Drive-by Texters (Go to Jail?)
For Brits who text while driving, and for those who share the road with them, things are pretty far from merry in old England. The Times just ran...
Cities
Lanes, Citizens Still Divided in Vancouver
In the GOOD 100 we applauded the idea of not only creating more space for cyclists and pedestrians on our roads, but of appropriating car lanes to...
Environment
Charging Forward with Mission Motor's Electric Superbike
A look at the technology, design, and people behind the Mission One motorcycle The world's fastest production electric motorcycle was built...
Environment
Maybe the Road Itself Can Charge Your Car
A German company called IAV has just received a patent for technology that would allow a strip embedded in the road to charge your electric car...
Business
A Crazy Pricing Scheme for a Crazy Car
Meyers Motors is getting ready to sell their slightly goofy, three-wheeled DUO electric vehicle, and has come up with an interesting pricing...
Look
Emergency in Mumbai? Dial 1298!
Americans take 911 for granted, but in many developing nations a centralized emergency telephone number is unheard of. In Mumbai, a private...
GOOD Blog
Should We Retrofit Our Country Roads for Slow Touring?
America has thousands of miles of single-lane country roads that have fallen into desuetude. Many of them are part of the old numbered highway...
Environment
America's Car Fleet Shrank in 2009
Well, have a look at this: According to a new study by the Earth Policy Institute, America's total fleet of cars got smaller in 2009. Check out...
GOOD Blog
Is This the Future of Indoor Transportation?
Honda's U3-X might have uses in hotels and airports, but will it usher in a Wall-E-style future? Probably. Via Core77.
GOOD Blog
School Buses Can Take Senior Citizens Shopping, Too
A program in New York City called the Market Ride Initiative is using school buses-which normally sit idle for most of the day when they're not...
News
Do You Wear a Bike Helmet?
A new study, which the Freakonomics guys point to today on their blog, shows that bike helmet laws might actually impact the number of bikers on...
Design
Belgium’s New Calatrava Train Station
The city of Liège, Belgium just opened their new high-speed train station, designed by the illustrious Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava,...
News
It's Official: High-speed Rail Money Announced
Exciting news: We now know where Obama's $8 billion for high-speed rail is going. Florida is getting $1.25 billion (not the $2.6 billion they had...
