Some belated comments on the Susanna Jennings article. When I first read the article I wondered whether she might be satirising its viewpoint. I am sure that...
1. Which of the following best describes you? Please check one. _Yes____ I do not presently own a car though I have owned a car previously. 2. How long have...
Segwaying Across the Country By Rachel Metz http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,64776,00.html 02:00 AM Sep. 01, 2004 PT While most people ride Segway...
and if that isn't a publicity stunt covertly organised by the Segway company, right out of the 1920's, I'll eat my expensive proprietary battery pack :-) de...
Question: What music plays in your head as you ride? This is not a question about what you *listen* to while riding, assume that you are riding without MP3's,...
I've heard about segways from a sample article in my technical writing class last semester. Where do they get their power source? Batteries? Are they...
$50-60,000 to get across the US by Segway ? I don't know what the trip was trying to prove, but what it seems to succeed in proving is that segwaying is ...
Changing the question a bit, I play out stories when I walk. Ever since I was a little girl, I liked to make up stories. I have long given up on being good...
... trip was ... segwaying is ... It's a sham. If you take a look at their web site http://www.10mph.com/ you'll see that the Segways are no more than toy...
... assume ... songs) ... TF: Whatever the people that I've spent the most time with lately have been playing. Occasionally, my own lyrics to it start forming...
... usually whatever was in my head before I got on the bike... or whatever idea, argument, issue or dilemma I'm thrashing out with myself today in inner...
Today is the big cross-town rivalry football game, and my 15yo son, in the band, had to be at school at 5 a.m. for a big practice. I did not want him to go...
darkness isn't that much different from daylight... in fact some hours of darkness, like 0300-0500 in my town, might be the safest time to walk or bike since...
I second what De says. Living without a car in Portland for ten years, I traveled around the city at all hours, my only precaution being avoiding high-crime...
Another working day has ended Only the rush hour hell to face Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes Contestants in a suicidal race Daddy grips the wheel...
My Mom, who's a vegan activist but still an (increasingly reluctant) automobile driver, forwarded this article to me (copied below): http://tinyurl.com/3oeut ...
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=v= This reminds me of a story from [cue Grampa Simpson voice] way-y-y back in the 20th Century. Gather 'round now, while I cut and paste some old email ... ...
September 2, 2004 America's Drivers Getting More Aggravated America is a nation of aggravated drivers, and they are growing more aggravated by the year,...
I am not a religious person. But, I have to tell you. I sometimes can't help notice, that much of the suffering that we do today, is a result, of peoples ...
One of the more destructive memes (auto-centrism) of this planet has now broken down the protective barrier of sanity in China: cars go wild threatening to...
this appeared in NYTimes yesterday op-ed. has anybody seen the book? i guess it's too new(?) i couldn't find it even on amazon... ... Driving Takes Its Toll ...
Try http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195141415/002-5549009-2180022 ?v=glance Simon ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... And have you seen: on C. Teaford. Post-Suburbia: Government and Politics in the Edge Cities. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Not quite...
Im not trying to start a flame war and welcome all constructive criticism and alternative points of view. "eating meat is an instinct, not eating meat is a ...
The impression I have from US toll roads (and, for that matter, the few we have in the UK) is that the tolls are not intended to deter traffic. That is clearly...
The critical political development was around the issue of hypothecation. Itıs a most unhelpful word in the sense that I cannot see the connection between the...
=v= Off-topic is an understatement. I only posted my "Revenge of the Bunny-Hugged" story because of its carfree angle; your message is a jumble of contentious...
My initial thoughts on tolls on roads is that they are a regressive tax on those who are dependant on cars and roads, and hit those who can least afford them...