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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

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KamaAina

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Wed Aug 13, 2014, 02:32 PM Aug 2014

The Case for Public Transportation, in Infographic Form [View all]

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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