"Urbanists have long looked at cars as the scourge of great places. Jane Jacobs identified the automobile as the “chief destroyer of American communities.” Cars not only clog our roads and cost billions of dollars in time wasted commuting, they are a terrible killer. They caused more than 40,000 deaths in 2017, including of some 6,000 pedestrians and cyclists."
"But in the United States, the car plays a fundamental role in structuring the economy, our daily lives, and the political and social differences that separate us."
"In 1965, a young lawyer named Ralph Nader published a book, "Unsafe at Any Speed," which was a harsh critique of automotive safety. One chapter of the book w..."
""Almost 6,000 pedestrians died on or along U.S. roads in 2016 alone—nearly as many Americans as have died in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002.""
Sabre is a business that builds equipment for treating waste water from hydrofracking in New Scotland. It's located down the road from the old Stonewell Marketplace. http://www.firstcolumbia.com/general/first-columbias-investment-company-sabre-carves-our-fracking-business-outside-ny-2/
"One of those companies is Sabre Technical Services LLC in Slingerlands. The company has rigs that clean and recycle millions of gallons of water needed to extract natural gas from deep rock formations in Texas, Arkansas, Wyoming, Oklahoma and other states. Sabre Technical Services LLC in Slingerlands operates five $1 million rigs that purify water contaminated by hyrdofracking."
Sabre has contracts with Occidental Petroleum Corp., Chesapeake Energy Corp., Apache Corp., Exxon and other energy giants, creating 100 jobs, about 20 of which are at the company headquarters. “We have 20 years of history with hydrofracking,” said John Mason, chairman and chief technology officer. “It’s the biggest market opportunity now.”
"The opportunities are not in New York, however, as the state continues to study whether to allow drilling in the Southern Tier, where the Marcellus Shale rock formation contains huge deposits of natural gas. "
I have been following his bicycle trip across the country. Some neat roadside attractions he's biking past.