In #Switzerland, fine for a speeding driver is based (1) on how far over the limit the driver is going (2) on how much the driver earns. One man caught driving his Ferrari at 137 km/h the in an 80 km/h zone in a village near St. Gallen was fined 300,000 Swiss Francs (today, $375,000 US). 🇨🇭🧵

Transit is stuck in a 20th-century paradigm: a mix of city-center-serving subways/metros and commuter rail for the suburbs. (And too many cities can't even manage this.) But #Paris is building the first truly 21st-century #transit system. Nothing to do with hyperloops or maglevs... 🧵

“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.” —Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.