http://www.mikebrownsolutions.com/fish3.htm OK? Simon ... From: De Clarke To: CarFree@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 6:56 AM Subject: [CF] it's...
Well, it seems Pogue did exist, and he worked on a carburetor. This link is to the Urban Legends Reference Pages, which I consider a reliable and useful...
... http://search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=030331000846 The sight of US army Humvee troop carriers stranded in the Iraqi desert waiting for refuelling...
... Car mileage is so poor because the engines are dimensioned for acceleration, also to some extent for ridiculously high speeds. This means that they are 10...
Theo Schmidt
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Apr 2, 2003 1:24 pm
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I admit that this is off topic, but I can't get it out of my head except by telling it to someone else. Sometime during the 80's, I quit listening to music on...
Thus spake Ken Kifer <kenkifer@...> ... Um, aren't there a few words missing? Bye Bye -- Helen D. Vecht: helenvecht@... Edgware....
Helen Deborah Vecht
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Apr 2, 2003 2:08 pm
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Today, the e-mail list of a bike club near me (in Susquehanna County, Pa.) got on the subject of the goal of reduced car use. Here's my participation in the...
... I think a lot of cops feel they are exempt from obeying laws. Years ago, before I started cycling, I was in line behind a police car at a drive through...
Not sure with how this fits into your thesis, but generally speaking the slower the traffic the higher the capacity -- because of the average spacing between...
Sung to the tune of "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" by Gil Scott-Heron. Lyrics by Larry Chinn for the first BikeSummer in 1999. "The Revolution Will Not...
Robert, that is GREAT. good work Larry! maybe we need also the accompanying lament: Pieces of a Pedestrian. [sorry, I realise that's rather grim humour] nice...
... Reducing car use should be a stated goal of every concerned citizen, especially cyclists, pedestrians, and public transit users who are the most adversely...
... speaking the ... average spacing ... TF: The "capacity" I'm talking about is how many motoring miles the road system can accommodate, as opposed to how...
... TF: You mean not even this one? http://pages.prodigy.net/rjmatter/gallery/41north.jpg Or, the 4-cylinder one that, I read not so long ago on this list, you...
... That's the same car, and it's gone. ... Chicago has a relatively high rate of carfreedom, 26% of households I believe, but not NW Indiana where I live. I...
... One of the things farmers do around here, to keep from getting snatched up (in addition to relying on tractors when necessary), is form a Land Trust in...
... Long ago I had heard that the most efficient speed for a multi-lane highway is 30 mph. That would be highway engineers' measure of efficiency, which I...
... farming. TF: The way that the few "pure" Amish people who might be left, get by (with non-motorized farming in high-property-tax areas), is by being...
Road diet is a term for the notion of removing lanes from a roadway, say reducing from 4 lanes down to two, thus the term diet. I think Dan Burden coined the...
... Actually, the distinguishing characteristic is cooperation and quality craftsmanship. There's no such thing as an Amish family farm in isolation from its...
I like the acronym ADD - but how about Severe Auto Dependency Disorder? S ... From: Robert J. Matter To: CarFree@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003...
Thanks! Great document. Related, but not exactly: Sausalito, CA, is putting bike lanes on the main drag (Bridgeway) this summer. It's currently two lanes...
David Lane got the impression that I was trying to stereotype the Amish. If I sounded that way, it's because I was only responding to Robert Matter's...
I remeber reading years ago about a farm in Colorado that used draft horses for all their work. They found that it was actually less expensive than keeping a...
... draft ... expensive ... right in ... pasture. ... use ... TF: I'm sure horses are more efficient, including money-wise, _if_ you compare them to how every...
From the Canadian press this week: ======================================== GM pulls 'weirdo' ads Frank Luba The Province General Motors Canada has pulled an...
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