by Charles Mudede • Mar 5, 2021 at 8:45 am Those were the days. Charles Mudede
What tune will we soon be singing to bad traffic? Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back. According to
MyNorthwest, WSDOT s COVID-19 Multimodal Transportation System Performance Dashboard shows that traffic volumes around the state are only off 3% from this time last year. Also, major routes in the Puget Sound area are now between 90% and 100% of pre-pandemic levels. And what are we to make of this? That the lockdown did nothing to change our transportation habits. We still love our cars too much. Indeed, we may even love them more in the post-pandemic period than we did in the pre-pandemic one. You do not have to wear a mask in your car. You do have to wear one (even two) on a bus or train. You do not have to social distance. You can be all the things you are and want to be while sitting forever in traffic.
Alatorre told CNN Travel that the rotating wheel would work to create a simulated gravity. The station rotates, pushing the contents of the station out to the perimeter of the station, much in the way that you can spin a bucket of water - the water pushes out into the bucket and stays in place, he said.
Near the centre of the station there s no artificial gravity, Alatorre explained, but as you move down the outside of the station, the feeling of gravity increases.
The hotel s original name was chosen because the concept was inspired by 60-year-old designs from Wernher von Braun, an aerospace engineer who pioneered rocket technology, first in Germany and later in the US.
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