2017
Hyperloop
- Elon Musk gets OK to begin digging for Hyperloop project in Maryland
- https://pakobserver.net/saudi-arabia-gcc-connected-ultra-fast-tube-transportation-system/
- http://www.businesstoday.in/buzztop/buzztop-technology/virgin-hyperloop-one-mumbai-pune-karnataka-route/story/264207.html
- https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/12/richard-bransons-virgin-group-invests-in…
- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/uae-declares-hyperloop-tt-most-innovative…
JPods and podcar networks
- Channel 9 Good News for Bengalurians
- Bengaluru TV coverage
- http://newsable.asianetnews.com/karnataka/after-metro-city-to-have-pod-taxi-by-2019
- http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/logistics/ultra-fairwood-bags-rapid-transit-project-in-uae/article9741616.ece
- https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2017/11/20/india-to-float-tender…
- https://www.openpr.com/news/826151/Increasing-Urban-Transport-Challenges…
- http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/270617/by-2018-ben…
RedBulll TV
- JPods section starts at about 10:20.
- https://www.redbull.tv/video/AP-1N7M58EWS2111/transportation
China:
LGA
- LaGuardia Airport.
- The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track on Earth
- How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s Subways
Access to resources:
- Students with and without the Internet: https://www.facebook.com/JungleVT/videos/2002463276562171/
http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/lawrence-solomon-ban-the-bike-…
Yuan and Oil
- OPEC compliance soars to record – Bloomberg, Dec 16, 2017
- Non-Dollar Trading Is Killing the Petrodollar — And the Foundation of U.S.-Saudi Policy in the Middle East
- The Yuan Could Replace The U.S. Petrodollar As World’s Reserve Currency – And That’s Bullish For Gold
- China’s Gold-Backed Oil Futures: A Threat To The U.S. Dollar, A Boon For Gold
- Dollar value drop? China will ‘compel’ Saudi Arabia to trade oil in yuan
- China’s Push to Trade Oil in Yuan Faces a Key Hurdle
- China will ‘compel’ Saudi Arabia to trade oil in yuan — and that’s going to affect the US dollar
https://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/113426/if-saudi-arabia-situation-doe…
Bob Lutz: Kiss the good times goodbye
‘Everyone will have 5 years to get their car off the road or sell it for scrap’
Anger builds over pollution in New Delhi
New Delhi’s pollution is off the charts — and it’s making residents ill
Wealth from the Many to the Few
- History Suggests the Hyperloop Is an Uncertain Promise for Future Cities
- In the 1950s, city planners used hyperbole when they suggested that highways could act as a panacea, unclogging the arteries of unhealthy cities. Many of these federally-funded highway projects decimated African-American communities. Automobiles and highways led to suburbanization and urban decline.
- How to Decimate a City
- Stent (or Dagger?) in the Heart of Town: Urban Freeways in Syracuse, 1944-1967
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