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Title: Daydreams and Nightmares: Remaking Modern Transportation (Cover Story)
Author : The Humanist
Release Date : January 01, 2007
Genre: Reference,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 383 KB

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SOME YEARS AGO a newspaper in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, which has a population roughly equal to Maine's, ran an eye-popping headline: Were Saskatchewan residents victims of some natural disaster or terrorist attack no one heard about? No, the headline refers to the annual damage from what the paper calls the province's "meat-grinder transportation system." Calculating the value of a human life as just lost lifetime income, the paper estimated the cost to the province at three quarters of a billion dollars. This didn't even include the medical costs of respiratory illnesses occasioned by the automobile, the full costs of policing roads, and the myriad costs of keeping oil flowing freely.