Sebastian Blanco
Filed under: Green Culture, Transportation Alternatives

For the last year or so, Google has been offering a public transportation information service called Google Transit. As we've said before, this is a slick idea that will not only help you plan your trip by bus or rail (in select areas), but will also give you a bit of a cost comparison between riding and driving. Now, you no longer need to go to Google Transit for this information, as it's been officially opened and is nicely integrated with the more popular Google Maps. That's not all that's different: the cost information has unfortunately disappeared from the information display. Guess they didn't like my idea.

There's a list of areas which have their public transportation system information in the Google system after the jump.

[Source: Google via EcoGeek]

California

• Bay Area (BART)
• Burbank (Burbank Bus)
• Humboldt County (Various)
• Orange County (OCTA)
• San Diego (MTS)
• Thousand Oaks (Thousand Oaks Transit)
• Bay Area (VTA)

Florida

• Tampa (HART)

Hawaii

• Honolulu (TheBus)

Minnesota

• Duluth (Duluth Transit)

Nevada

• Las Vegas (Monorail)
• Reno (RTC RIDE)

Oregon

• Eugene (Lane Transit District)
• Portland (TriMet)

Pennsylvania

• Pittsburgh (Port Authority)

Texas

• Austin (Capital Metro)
• Dallas (DART)

Virginia

• Hampton Roads (HRT)

Washington

• Seattle (King County Metro)

Japan

• Japan (All regional and national rail networks, domestic airlines and ferries)

Source: www.autobloggreen.com

For the love of God… A group of “right-minded” people who have nothing better to do in life -they call themselves the American Family Association (AFA), are taking credit for Ford’s sales dip the past year. The AFA supports in a press release that it issued that Ford sales have dropped in 17 of the 19 months since they began a boycott on the Ford Group’s products in March 2006. The boycott began due to the Ford’s decision support the gay community by running ads in homosexual publications and promoting organizations that seek to put gay relationships and marriages on the same social plane as heterosexual marriages in early 2006.

Here’s an extract from AFA’s release: “While not totally responsible for the decline in sales, the boycott is having an impact. When the boycott began, Ford was approximately in the same financial condition as that of General Motors and Chrysler. But because of the boycott, Ford is now in much more of a serious financial situation than GM and Chrysler.” And to believe that some people might actually take these guys seriously… For the sake of all us, lets hope Ford doesn’t blink an eye.

Link: AFA

Source: carscoop.blogspot.com

The Lamborghini Embolado concept is the work of Luca Serafini, an Industrial Design final year student at the University of Parma in Italy. Luca designed the Embolado -the name is derived from a Spanish festival called “Embolado Bull" or “Toro Embolado”, as the successor to Lamborghini’s entry-level model, the Gallardo. According to Luca, the idea behind the design proposition was to create an ultra-aggressive Lamborghini supercar borrowing the compact exterior dimensions of the Gallardo. For what it’s worth, our personal opinion is that Luca needs to re-work the roofline and the rear end (from the c-pillar and back) and he just might have something really interesting. What do you think? -Continued

Images: Luca Serafini , Via: carbodydesign

Source: carscoop.blogspot.com