Slate.com is tapping crowd-sourcing to find the best ways to get around the cities of America. Called “Nimble Cities,” the feature prompts readers to submit their best ideas for getting around in and between cities in the most efficient and safe manner.
In short, it’s all about improving your commute, and we’re all about that.
Submissions will be accepted until July 6th.
Here’s a little teaser from Nimble Cities:
What are the things that will help create more Nimble Cities? While we’re certainly not opposed to your most forward-looking proposals: Let’s fire up Chicago’s once sprawling pneumatic tube network; let’s not let those zeppelin masts go to waste!–what we’re most interested in are things in the here and now, things that are already making (or will soon be making) a difference in your city. These may be big-picture: high-speed rail corridors that return our intracity train systems to their (much faster) glory days, or maybe even personal rapid transit. (It’s already come to London’s Heathrow Airport.) But they need not be grandiose: Maybe it’s free Wi-Fi on interurban buses; maybe it’s cycle superhighways; maybe it’s a subway display that tells users which cars are most crowded or Seoul’s active OLEV (Online Electric Vehicle) project, in which vehicles draw electric power from strips embedded in the road. Submit a brief write-up here, and include images if at all possible! It will help people notice, and perhaps vote for, your idea.