Vocabulary
\What does the word "sprawling" mean?
spreading out over a large area in an irregular way.
What's Garry Golden's passion?
Transportation
The opposite of futurists is?
Historians
What's a trend?
is the subject of many posts on a social media website within a short period of time.
What was Garry Golden doing in the small cafe in Brooklyn?
he was doing papers with diagrams of trains, cars and highways.
Which city Golden talks about in the article?
Houston, Texas.
What's something "inefficient"?
Not achieving maximum productivity.
How many parking spaces has every resident in Houston?
30 parking spaces for every resident.
Golden spend his days studying the relationships between...?
Cars, subways and trains.
What's a futurist?
A person who studies the future and makes predictions about it based on current trends.
What Golden suggested people should use to make electric cars? Why?
People should use strong plastic composites so they're lighter and cheaper to make.
Why the idea of electric cars fascinates Golden?
Because we need to reduce the amount of fuel we use.
What's an advocate?
A person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy.
Buses are currently inefficient. According to Golden, how could this type of transportation be improved?
He says that people can have a smartphone and use them to signal when they want to ride the bus, the bus would change its route depending on who want to ride.
Why do people argue about how the city is sprawling?
Because there's lots of people in the streets, traffic jams and it can take more than three hours to get from on side of the city to the other during rush hour.