Check out this VIDEO: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid988327350/bclid1037705321/bctid1504447 505 for some of the stupidest bike lanes around the...
This is a sweet video on the positives of not using a car. The guy even makes a bowling buddy on the bus. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRABWK1G6B4...
Here's the situation. 1. I am arriving flying into SFO at 8:00AM from San Diego (I wish we had high speed rail like Europe .. but there you go). 2. Have a...
511.org is an excellent trip planner. The 10 AM to Pleasanton will be tricky since BART takes the long way around to get to the East Bay. You might see if...
... =v= 511.org was created (as transitinfo.org) by students at U.C. Berkeley to grapple with the Bay Area's balkanization into numerous transit agencies....
http://www.fcnp.com/national_commentary/ the_peak_oil_crisis_transiting_to_transit_20080508.html The Peak Oil Crisis: Transiting to Transit Written by Tom...
Finally the driver is made to face the music. Bicyclist hit by motor home in Oswego County by Douglass Dowty Saturday May 10, 2008, 11:34 PM Constantia, NY --...
Sorry that it has been a while since I got around to posting this on the group. Four weeks ago around 7pm on Monday, I was hit on the hand by the rear view...
There's an excerpt on the poison of "free" parking in today's Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/News/Ideas/article/424158 Among many well-turned phrases, it...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/business/10transit.html ... =v= True of the San Francisco metropolitan area, but not San Francisco itself. You will note...
Traffic on eRideShare.com has doubled since February, and held close to the peak level for about the level for about three weeks. No data on urban vs. suburban...
=v= This is called PRT, and was been discussed here some time back: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CarFree/msearch?query=prt =v= I'm not impressed with it....
I agree. I like light rail much better. Even better than that would be if cities of the future were built sprawl-free, so that a person could bicycle or even...
In the UK, things are different. I was at a meeting recently where high oil prices were cited as a reason why bus services may be reduced. The problem is that...
I'm not sure if calling it a joke means that the whole project is a farce, a put-together, or that it's so complex and so revolutionary that it will never...
Heathrow is putting a variation in right now. It runs along the ground, http://www.atsltd.co.uk/prt/spec/ Anyone in the UK have any views on the Ultra Light...
=v= Here's one of those online petition thingies from EA, simply suggesting that the governor make public transit a priority. I was more than a little bit...
I'm planning to sell my car (at long last) in June, and I hope that will ease things a bit, when it comes to situations like this. In the meantime, my problem...
Try my website, www.erideshare.com. There are hundreds of commuter listings in the LA area. You might find someone to give you a lift. You can also try the...
From today on, whenever I will see a bus approaching, I will take the lane! I will certainly not rely on the driver being courteous. If they want to get past...