I know there are a million people sharing temperature anomaly charts and maps lately, but there's a good reason for that. This is totally bonkers and people who look at this stuff routinely can't believe their eyes. Something very weird is happening.
K-8 students who live within ONE MILE:
in 1969, 89% walked or biked to school.
in 2009, 13% walked or biked to school.
That suggests parenting culture plays a much larger role than car culture. Or parenting culture IS car culture.
Today, the largest city in the world's largest economy announced that it's not feasible to build a rail connection to one of its airports. I honestly don't know what to do with that information.