• A little more on subways. Kottke points out this article about what the NYC system means in terms of transporting people where they have to go. It’s equivalent to a 228-lane Brooklyn Bridge:
At best, it would take 167 inbound lanes, or 84 copies of the Queens Midtown Tunnel, to carry what the NYC Subway carries over 22 inbound tracks through 12 tunnels and 2 (partial) bridges. At worst, 200 new copies of 5th Avenue. Somewhere in the middle would be 67 West Side Highways or 76 Brooklyn Bridges. And this neglects the Long Island Railroad, Metro North, NJ Transit, and PATH systems entirely.
• Here’s Slate’s “thought experiment” on how the U.S. will cease to be. A little unsettling, but you might think it’s just crazy stuff.
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