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...
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Steven Schoeffler
erideshare_com
Jun 4, 2008 9:09 pm
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,...
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Lee
plain_farmer
Jun 6, 2008 1:34 am
Thanks for sharing your car-free experience and how some people's perspectives are beginning to change over the years. It is encouraging. Thanks...
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Jym Dyer
jymdyer
Jun 11, 2008 10:54 pm
=v= I just heard about this, though the news is a month old. My sympathies to Sir Paul. :-| <_Jym_> ...
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Robert J. Matter
rjmatter00
Jun 12, 2008 5:03 pm
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...
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AnnaLisa Wiley
carfreelady
Jun 18, 2008 9:48 pm
Hope it works. They have these in many large foreign cities. Santa Rosa, CA does this on 4th Street for Wednesday Night Market. I love it! ...
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Jym Dyer
jymdyer
Jun 18, 2008 10:09 pm
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....
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vurt456
Jun 25, 2008 1:39 pm
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...
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Simon Norton
simonphillip...
Jun 25, 2008 4:29 pm
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 ? ...
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Mari Lea
lea_petra
Jun 25, 2008 9:13 pm
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....
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vurt456
Jun 26, 2008 12:35 am
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: ...
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Robert J. Matter
rjmatter00
Jun 26, 2008 4:55 am
... 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...
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Christopher Miller
kiwehtin
Jun 26, 2008 10:35 pm
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...
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Tom Frost Jr.
tomfrostjr
Jun 27, 2008 2:07 pm
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...
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Justice McPherson
justice99645
Jun 27, 2008 6:15 pm
... 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 ...
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Christopher Miller
kiwehtin
Jun 27, 2008 11:46 pm
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...
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Christopher Miller
kiwehtin
Jun 28, 2008 1:28 am
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...
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Jym Dyer
jymdyer
Jun 28, 2008 2:13 pm
... =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,...
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vurt456
Jun 28, 2008 5:24 pm
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...
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Christopher Miller
kiwehtin
Jun 28, 2008 8:32 pm
<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...
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vurt456
Jun 29, 2008 1:22 am
Sorry Chris! I noticed that after I hit "Send"! :-) Michelle...
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Enci
etakacs72
Jun 29, 2008 1:50 am
... 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...
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Enci
etakacs72
Jun 29, 2008 1:51 am
... 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...
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Justice McPherson
justice99645
Jun 29, 2008 12:22 pm
... 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...
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vurt456
Jun 29, 2008 1:59 pm
Justice said: it adjusted it's priorities and rules, ... I wouldn't say 30 years of transition is "Poof!" :-) Michelle...
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vurt456
Jun 29, 2008 3:02 pm
Also, Justice wrote: "It is a fallacy to look at a place that has succeeded in doing a thing that you are contemplating doing, and say that it is...
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Kathryn Pope
engteach46
Jun 29, 2008 4:38 pm
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...
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fred_dot_u
Jun 29, 2008 6:41 pm
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...
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kjhashim
Jun 30, 2008 10:28 pm
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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vurt456
Jul 3, 2008 1:15 pm
I'm thinking about getting a folding bike. Does anyone have any specific recommendations? Michelle...
