This page was sent to you by: s.j.baddeley@.... Interesting to see how a 55mph limit correlates with insurance savings and lowered road death and injury...
... Didnt take me long plus where else can I moan on about cars :-) When I talk about cutting car use or peak oil or well, anything really, I get looked at...
... It's true. All of the recent models of stationary cycles and cross-training machines generate their own power. This is a boon to health-clubs and gyms...
It¹s called the elephant in the drawing room. You simply must not comment on or remind people of its embarrassing presence, I think you¹ll find that levels...
... Thankee kindly. Covered 40 miles so far this weekend doing all my errands on my bike. Shyrley Bush : ... I've been talking to Vicente Fox, the new...
No need to worry about oil. It turns out we can have something for nothing. This propaganda piece appeared in our paper yesterday. The reporter is our "car...
My disability doesn't keep me from driving, but I have experienced people not getting the fact that I was disabled and athletic. Some fellow students couldn't...
Today at the hardware store I saw a Ford Explorer in the parking lot (not uncommmon). What was uncommon and stopped me in my tracks was the bumper sticker it...
... =v= In honor of the person whose quote that is, perhaps you should make a "What Would Gandhi Drive?" sticker to slap on the bumper the next time you see...
... I took a photo of one of those things with my bike leaning against it when I was living in the US. I wanted to show my friends back in England how enormous...
"...George's answer to any problem at the ranch is to cut it down with a chainsaw. Which I think is why he and Cheney and [the defence secretary] Donald...
... I thought petrol was priced in litres here in the UK nowadays but not having a car makes one innattentive to its price. Do UK car drivers still think in...
... Well spotted useful info Diane. For me, the de facto prohibition on today's children from playing in the street immediately outside their homes or in the...
Gosh Bill I know see why you need to be a Martian anthropologist with a math degree to do this stuff. Trouble is we think more and more in litres but we drive...
Beautifully put, Bill. S http://www.childfriendlycities.org/about/ In the cities of the high-income countries children may be threatened by traffic, pollution...
In case anyone's worried by "Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter", there's nothing in Steve Johnson's...
There was a documentary about the US last week. One thing mentioned was that only 50% of Americans have web access. I was rather surprised as I'd assumed it ...
In case anyone's worried by "Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter", there's nothing in Steve Johnson's...
My family of six (two adults, two teens priced as adults and two under 9) want to go from Norman, Okla., to Washington, D.C., by train in early August -- at...
... I attended a Rotary Club lunch a couple of weeks ago to which I rode my bike (naturally). A gentleman I sat next to is a local business leader. As we...
... I was thinking about what a post-car culture might look like when we are forced to be more 'local'. I'm not sure all of it is/was good. A cut off closed ...
Our street is in a typical American suburban development. The residential street is 40 feet across in front of my house. In our neighborhood, however, we've...
... So, you want to see the effect on life expectancy that gasoline prices (dollars per gallon) have on U.S. users versus the life expectancy changes that...
Bill, US prices are always in "regular" gallons = 3.785 liters per gallon. UK traditionally uses imperial gallons as a liquid measure, but as you said fuel is...
Yeah well I recall years ago my dad saying that during wartime petrol rationing in USA there was an increase in suicide rates linked to the isolation suffered...
... I grew up in a small town of 850 people on the Ohio River in the "little Egypt" area of southern Illinois. The town is the county seat, and its economic...
... This is disappointing, especially with Amtrak in such a precarious position. I guess the folks who want Amtrak to die (but who will pump billions into ...
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