links for 2008-04-26

• BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | What if we all walked to work?
  in central London, for example, there are 109 journeys between Tube stations that are quicker to walk (taking into account time spent waiting for trains).
  (tags: transportation walking walk walkertracker pedestrian london)
• Chariots of Fire and Iron: The Modern Railway System (1888)
  The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings. Nahum 2:4
  (tags: party-like-its-188x railroad religion via:biblophagist fire iron)