I’m thinking of doing something different on here, since writing summaries of all the articles I write every week is too difficult for me to keep up with, and, really, if you are interested in the the articles I write,…
Paris Metro Riders Heating Apartment Building
I wrote last week on a cool pilot project in Philadelphia in which the kinetic energy created from subway trains braking will be captured and either reused in accelerating trains, stored for later, or sold back to the electricity grid.…
New York City Bus and Train Thief is Addicted to Stealing NYC Transit
If you are a regular reader here on EcoLocalizer, you know that I am a big fan of sustainable transportation — bikes, buses, trains, etc. So, when I came across this story, you can imagine I got a big kick…
Philadelphia Subway Trains to Start Producing Electricity from Braking
Ever wonder how much kinetic energy is created from trains braking? Me neither,.. until I found out about a cool new pilot project in Philadelphia where the energy created from subway trains braking will be used for some of the…
Bicycle City
The first Bicycle City is finally getting built! More on that and how Bicycle City got started via co-founder Joe Mellet below. I have seen advertisements for Bicycle City for years now. I remember when it first got started —…
New York City Bicycle Sharing Program to be BIG!
I just wrote a piece on a cool visualization project of the new London cycle scheme, or bike sharing program. Now, on the other side of the Atlantic, we have some very exciting news about a bicycle sharing program in…
London Cycle Scheme “Boris Bikes” Visualized
London is one of the latest big cities to implement a modern bike sharing program. The “cycle scheme” (as they call it in England) is popularly called “Boris Bikes” now, named after London Mayor Boris Johnson. To help show the…
Where’s the World’s Most Painful Commute?
I was just writing earlier on the power of cities and the progressive transportation choices cities can take to turn the world around (environmentally, economically, and otherwise). Looking at this from a different (and perhaps more negative) angle, IBM recently released…
San Francisco Transbay Transit Center [VIDEO]
![San Francisco Transbay Transit Center [VIDEO]](http://zacharyshahan.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/013.jpg "San Francisco Transbay Transit Center [VIDEO]")
Animation of the upcoming Transbay Transit Center (aka Grand Central of the West) that just broke ground on Wednesday.