A.M. Greenlist: Human-powered car triumphs over traffic ticket

>> Pedal-powered car that tops out at 15 mph got stopped and ticketed -- but in the end had the charges dropped because there's no "clear definition of what the vehicle even is or what law applies to its altered state." The video's pretty funny:

>> Zero to 60 in 6 seconds loses popularity. 400 Denver drivers are getting "accelerometers installed in their vehicles that record every time they slam on their brakes, rapidly accelerate or take a corner too quickly" -- behaviors that decrease fuel efficiency 20 percent.

>> O.C. transportation officials look for more innovative ideas to connect Metrolink to residential areas and popular destinations. "To the planners' chagrin, however, most cities wanted trolleys, shuttles or "fun buses" that rely on rubber-tire technology."

>> How to fix the havoc Bush wreaked on the environment. Emily Bazelon and Paul Sabin write in Slate that the new president will need to stop "intervening" in other agencies' decisions, and halt government / industry meddling in scientific research, among other things.

>> Garbage never goes "away." Elizabeth Royte investigates garbage's trajectory in the Big Apple: "The more I learned about the history of garbage in New York, the more I saw that it was a history of interim solutions, of reactions to crises political, economic, and social. Even when the federal government stepped in, change was achingly slow."

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[jrb]

I loved that cop's reaction to the pedal powered car!