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‘City Permeability’

A useful addition to the urbanist lexicon.

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Posted on Friday, December 18th, 2009 at 11:24 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Traffic Safety Film of the Week

I’m always fascinated by the U.K. Highway’s Code — not just the sheer amount of material one must absorb for the exam, but the very idea of a national code, which eliminates the weird comparative quirks among state laws here — even though the roads, drivers, and traffic environments are essentially the same (those states where you can drive at 14, a relic of family farm life, even though in places like Iowa agribusiness has taken over and true farm kids are much fewer; or the patchwork quilt of texting/talking laws) — as well as different driver training regimens, not to mention those awkward moments where a driver with multiple DUIs in one state gets one in another state and goes unpunished. My sense too is that the Highway Code as a cultural concept looms larger in the U.K. than our driving laws and training regimen does here (it’s not something much considered once one has the license). In any case, thanks to Chris for the video tip.

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Posted on Friday, December 18th, 2009 at 11:20 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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More Trashy Celeb Driving Coverage for a Wasting Pre-Holiday Friday

Ok, while we’re mining this trough, it appears Anne Hathaway is safe — miraculously — after the car in which she was riding was struck by a… bicycle. No word on airbag deployment.

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Posted on Friday, December 18th, 2009 at 10:16 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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The Accidental Journalist

Not that the Daily Mail should really be held to any standard, but yes, there’s the ‘a’ word in this decidedly not-accidental brush with death by Peaches Geldolf and the IDGAF crew (”I Don’t Give a … this a family blog!). Something Yeats-ian here: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are found on Twitter.”

I should add, by the way, for those not in the know, that Peaches Geldolf is not something on the menu at the Waldorf-Astoria but errant offspring of Bob, who has long ago stopped being known for anything but the antics of his celelbutante daughter.

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Posted on Friday, December 18th, 2009 at 10:08 am by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Traffic Tom Vanderbilt

How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

Please send tips, news, research papers, links, photos (bad road signs, outrageous bumper stickers, spectacularly awful acts of driving or parking or anything traffic-related), or ideas for my Slate.com Transport column to me at: info@howwedrive.com.

For publicity inquiries, please contact Kate Runde at Vintage: krunde@randomhouse.com.

For editorial inquiries, please contact Zoe Pagnamenta at The Zoe Pagnamenta Agency: zoe@zpagency.com.

For speaking engagement inquiries, please contact
Jenna Meulemans at the Knopf Speaker Bureau.

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For UK publicity enquiries please contact Rosie Glaisher at Penguin.

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