Social-media Idealism Collides With Human Nature

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The United States, with its enormous highways, sprawling suburbs and neglected public transport systems, is one of the most car-dependent countries in the world. But this arrangement of obligatory driving is making many Americans actively unhappy, new research has found. The car is firmly entrenched as the default, and often only, mode of transport for the vast majority of Americans, with more than nine in 10 households having at least one vehicle and 87 percent of people using their cars daily.

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Another Florida Democrat switches parties, a little over a month after securing the election as a Democrat. This one, Hillary Cassel of Boyton Beach, went out on an especially sour note, accusing Democrats of being anti-semitic and condoning acts of terrorism. Interestingly, this didn't stop Cassel from accepting $30,000 from the Florida Democratic Party, or about 25% of her contributions.

Plans to build the contentious Jefferson Parkway toll highway through Broomfield and Jefferson counties — part of a conspicuously missing segment in metro Denver’s 83-mile beltway — are set to come back to life after years of delays, resistance and litigation. But don’t expect the earthmovers and asphalt pavers to roar to life anytime soon on the 10-mile thoroughfare. On Dec.

More than a half century after the last passenger disembarked Car No. 10 of the Yampa Valley Mail train, an effort to revive passenger rail from Colorado’s capital city to the state’s northwest corner is taking shape. The type of train hasn’t been chosen, ridership projections haven’t been publicized, fares haven’t been set and travel times haven’t been announced.

The press is no longer covering for Joe and the polls speak for themselves as a result.