The regime is exploiting the tension to motivate the masses to work harder on various big first-economy projects, especially the land-reclamation drive now under way on the east coast.
"The capital is super mobile — the single contraint is how you get a critical mass of talented people to work for you.
Here, we used the same logic, a hypothetical observer who cannot detect a mass without also knowing where that mass is, to work out the proportion of trials on which correct detection combined with incorrect localisation could be due to lucky guesses.
That means enabling people to take mass transit to work, and that means building more housing in attractive neighborhoods already well served by public transportation.
Interestingly, "despite all the talk of increased mass transit usage, the percentage of Americans working at home has grown 1.5 times faster over the past decade; there are now more telecommuters than people who take mass transit to work in 38 out of the 52 U.S. metropolitan areas with more than one million residents", he writes.
It also, they say, puts Mr. Bloomberg into a highly contradictory position: he campaigned on the importance of mass transit, has so far honored his pledge to take mass transit to work every day (usually the jampacked Lexington Avenue line) and has shown a willingness to try to push drivers out of their cars and into subways and buses.
Most of them take mass transit to work, or walk, oblivious to a medium preoccupied with concepts like drive time.
For mass transit to work, he writes, cities must not only achieve a threshold of mixed-use density, but driving must become an exceedingly unpleasant alternative.
Some people said they were curious about the media billionaire Michael R. Bloomberg, enticed by his promises to ride mass transit to work and to finance his campaign using his own money.
