Tom Frost says that Jym Dyer is criticising IKEA for locating its stores where most of its customers are. Does that mean that most Americans live in strip ...
A not-so-recent posting from Indiana (USA) on going Carfree: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ WHY I TRADED IN MY CAR FOR A BIKE This is the story of...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/06/us/06parking.html?ex=1325739600&en=ace372269c43ce76&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss motorists' sense of entitlement to a...
... I was taken aback by the writer's statement, "Burdened with one of the densest downtowns in the country..." "Burdened?" Having lots of destinations within...
Sorry, what's the point of putting advertisements warning against violence against traffic wardens on buses ? The people who do it probably wouldn't be seen...
... Quite likely, but if the ad was on the *outside* of a bus (many are in this country at least) it would be quite visible to the intended audience....
Rob Duncan
duncan@...
Jan 10, 2007 8:10 pm
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They are usually on the outside. And a car driver could well be stuck in traffic looking at the back of a bus. S Simon Norton <S.Norton@...> wrote:...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/06/us/06parking.html ... =v= Yeah, that's the true burden: too much effort accommodating cars and too little coverage by public...
... =v= True, though I don't think these will be very effective in any event. San Francisco has attempted this approach with ads telling cars not to road rage...
This story caught my eye.... Mainly for the over the top reaction of the police... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6251431.stm When I lived in VA, Route 7...
Here in San Diego, it seems you are only stopped if your jaywalking causes a car to have to, heaven forbid, slow down. If I remember right, it cost me around...
Actually, I've got a beef against jaywalkers who cause a bicyclist to slow down... pisses me off everytime it happens, at least once a month (as opposed to...
The writer Sir Alan Herbert, who was I believe a founder member of the (UK) Pedestrians Association, in at least one of his Misleading Cases series put words...
... Unless Route 7 is a fenced-in motorway, surely you must be allowed to cross the road, how else would you get to the other side? In Switz. I believe the...
Oh yes I forgot to mention an important consideration (which I have previously mentioned on this list). At one of the most common types of intersection in the ...
Howdy, all: As directed by the moderator, here's a bit about me: *1. Which of the following best describes you? Please check one. *__ I do not presently own a...
That is a good point about turning traffic. I often find that it is much safer to "jaywalk" across the middle of a street where there is almost never a...
Mexican President Felipe Calderon signed an accord with businesses Thursday to help curb soaring tortilla prices. The corn tortilla is the basic staple of the...
not off topic at all. http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/170671 car sales up 50 percent in one year in china http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35905 ...
=v= Here's something I don't have to deal with in snowy weather: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM2gLjfE_3Y Here are some people who actually believe the ads ...
... to U.S. ethanol plants using limited corn supplies, pushing prices as high as $3.40 a bushel, the highest in more than a decade.< This is exactly what I've...
"Recognizing that auto emissions are a major contributor to global warming — a symbolically important number of Iraqis has gone from driving their cars to...
HOUSTON (Reuters) - As U.S. President George W. Bush readies a new plan on global warming, environmentalists say an 18-lane highway going up in Houston speaks...
The whole way we use millions of gallons of oil a day scares the heck out of me. Not just the depletion of resources but how much polution is put into the air...
"Why farm biofuel corn in a way that's sustainable?" TF: Because starving a bunch of horses - specifically the ones that almost all of the new generation of...
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/46846/ "Of course, the single worst impediment to clear thinking among most individuals and organizations in America today...
I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere, quite possibly on this list, the claim that the amount of energy consumed in the manufacture and shipping of an auto is...
Bart Hawkins Kreps
bart.hawkinskreps@...
Jan 30, 2007 1:03 am
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2007-01/30/content_796078.htm Time for New York pedestrians to reclaim city By Robert Sullivan (China Daily) Updated:...
Robot parking garage to open in New York By PETER SVENSSON Would you trust a robot to park your car? The question will confront New Yorkers in February...
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