When I first went car(e)free in May of 2002 most people in the US were still pro-war and pro-oil guzzling at any cost. My decision to go carfree was partly...
My car has a transmission problem. It's been parked in my driveway idle for more than two months. In that time I borrowed a car once to go grocery shopping,...
The "green car" trend is troubling. Especially as the cars grow ever larger and more powerful. They enable the energy-dependent to satisfy their selfish...
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/will-summer-streets-work/ =v= A Latin America-style ciclovia is longer than most street closures I've encountered....
Two friends of mine were killed by a drunk driver last year. I found out the sentence for the drunk driver yesterday. She will get 17 years, then when she gets...
If someone's given a 17 year senence how long will normally actually be spent in prison ? And is the 8 years licence revocation afterwards dependent on that ? ...
Michelle Sorry for your lost. Unfortunately too many times I hear of those people still getting behind a wheel even after the law takes every thing away....
Thanks Mari for your kind comments. This is even more terrible - on the same news page that I read the sentence for the drunk driver, I saw this news story: ...
... Normally I think you earn one day early release for every one day of good behavior you serve. So you serve 1/2 your sentence. This is dependent on how the...
A June 26 report by Jeff Rubin of CIBC Wolrd Markets predicts a trend to North Americans abandoning cars in favour of public transit in large numbers, via...
The participants of a recent thread repeated several times that "driving is a privilege, not a right", a hypothesis that my opponent Robert Matter then...
... European-style energy prices — but without the European-style society to cope with them? Hasn't seemed like an issue really. Europe changed from an ...
Just a slight correction: those weren't my words, but rather from the body of the Wall Street Journal article I pasted and linked to in my email. Cheers, Chris...
From the Coolhunting blog today, June 26: Ride the City by Doug Black, 27 June 2008 To those who enjoy their status as breathing, sentient beings, riding a...
... =v= Bloomie has been no friend to bicyclists. Under his watch, the NYPD has increased its harrassment of bicyclists and have taken to seizing locked,...
I agree with Christopher, most of the U.S. is not currently designed for any transportation modes other than those requiring cheap oil, so when oil is no...
<Big chuckle...> Again, the quote is not from me but from a Wall Street Journal article that I posted to the list. The article was by the WSJ's Keith...
... The bike activists usually don't get any credit, even though they fight for safe streets for years on end. Bike activists do it for free, don't have a...
... I do this all the time. Rent a car once a month to do all the heavy shopping. I also borrow sometimes my friends cars during the day while they are at...
... Portland is NOT an exception. Portland is "well designed" as you said BECAUSE it has transitioned. The transition itself was no better than other cities...
Thanks for the suggestions! I sold my car this week and although the car has been used very rarely for the past 6 months, I'm now in my first week completely...
It's just my opinion, but of course, that's part of what you're asking. I would think now is probably more appropriate than any other time and certainly from a...
Congratulations! This is a nice article on car sharing http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/SaveonaCar/ShouldYouShareACar.aspx Check out flexcar...
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