A New Mobility Café member wrote: "I agree with Professor David Begg's suggestion that the congestion charge extends to all roads within the M25. Were this to...
... short. ... Kevin ... economic answer ... What group or forum is this from? Interesting in the LVT revenues gained from 60 million acres and the governments...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Jan 4, 2006 3:36 pm
Hi Clive, Many thanks for your contribution to this debate. You say: "The location of land is supreme in decision making for business and land is only held...
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Terence Bendixson
t.bendixson@...
Jan 4, 2006 9:39 pm
Dave Maybe you ought to sit in the bath for a bit and ponder on your statement 'Land is a finite resource. Any particular site cannot be replicated by using...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Jan 5, 2006 8:15 am
The scarcity is where we want to be. Henry George in Progress and Poverty (1979) describes it thus: thrtythrCHAPTER 12 THE UNBOUNDED SAVANNAH Here, let us...
Stephen, Yet, why have car journeys at all? By far the best way to get rid of cars is to make them unnecessary. American cities can spread for 50 miles in...
Ed Dodson (U.S.A.) responding... Terence Bendixson wrote: ... in practice house buyers, developers and others usually have a choice of sites offering virtually...
... Don't expect that, since it's never happened. Rather, expect what has happened. Taxing or "feeing" land does not change how much one pays but to whom -...
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ADuffield1@...
Jan 5, 2006 8:17 am
In a message dated 04/01/06 21:41:09, t.bendixson@... writes: << Further more the Dutch have, by expanding considerable labour and capital on polders,...
Harry and all, There is one paradox in road transport, and car transport in particular, which constantly amazes me. In most transport fields the focus of ...
LVT News Digest - 5 January 2006 NO reason why 'land tax' should stifle development ic Teesside.co.uk - Middlesbrough,England,UK ... The previous attempt to...
John, Not inevitably "heavier, less efficient and more polluting"! SUVs in US statistics were lumped in with light trucks that many Americans like to buy -...
That's a good suggestion. The study of planning is pretty well impartial and does hit the nail on the head - left wing or right or whatever. There is the odd...
A New Year is on us – and what better time to take a moment to take stock and decide if we are doing what we want to do, as we want to do it – and with the...
Harry, This has nothing to do with our usual themes of landuse, but let us start the Happy 206 with this. 1. There is another story on the birth of the SUV....
Paul, there is another important difference which is often missed. In Europe we set up the Euro standards for emissions. These standards are different for...
Ed Dodson here: I hope you will pardon this non-content message from me. As some of you are aware, I established an internet-based education project to...
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Terence Bendixson
t.bendixson@...
Jan 9, 2006 8:26 am
John H You are quite right about diesels and the view we take of them in Europe. Their emissions contain tiny cancerous particles that can be drawn down to the...
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Terence Bendixson
t.bendixson@...
Jan 9, 2006 8:27 am
Paul How right you are. And from the work that the Independent Transport Commission has done on suburbs and travel in Britain, it is clear that the majority of...
John, Yes, and this is (also) at least to a large extent caused by privileged taxation, which is our issue of Cafetalk. And fine - but not nice - dust returns...
Paul, Saw an interview with the General Motors boss. They are continuing to push SUVs in the coming year. Seems crazy - but maybe the vehicles will be much...
Harry, et al This is indeed the core of our very serious issue. The GM and many other bosses only understand the business-as-usual approach. Other bosses are...
Terence, No we don’t. When I was a lad, a long time ago, we were approaching the next ice age with trepidation and nuclear power was going to supply...
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Terence Bendixson
t.bendixson@...
Jan 9, 2006 6:23 pm
John I should have been clearer. I was thinking of Amory Lovins' earlier work on getting the cumulative benefits of reducing vehicle weights. If we are to get...
Subject: RE: [LandCafe] Air Pollution by Fine Dust - The Seven Commandments?? Quoting John Havercroft on Mon, 9 Jan 2006 10:21:18 -0000: ___John H___ When I...
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Joshua Vincent
centerforthestudyofec...
Jan 11, 2006 7:11 am
Hartford Courant Editorial: Make Hartford More Like Harrisburg From the January 1, 2006 Hartford Courant: City leaders should consider changing the tax system...
[Prissy schoolmarm here. Let's keep to focus here, Okay?. From now on I invite y'all to exchange your energy ideas among you privately, and if you will with...
Harry, 1. There is a theory ( I mentioned ) and a practice ( you mention ) of globalisation. Both are, however, not the case for environment & trade. Current...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Jan 13, 2006 1:13 pm
Stephen In this April 2004 publication you and your colleagues state: "In fact, it is readily apparent that even if every version of land value capture were to...
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Tony Vickers
tonyvickers@...
Jan 13, 2006 3:40 pm
In the RICS report "Funding London's Transport Needs" of 2003 by GVA Grimley's Jim Whelan, the revenue from LVT/SVR within Central London alone was estimated...
