Even with electric buses a dark and dreary underground bus station would not be an inviting prospect for bus passengers. Unlike an underground car park, bus...
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Terence Bendixson
t.bendixson@...
Aug 1, 2006 8:45 am
I live in Chelsea in London in a house built in 1880 (now converted into flats) surrounding a park or, as we call it, a garden square. Those of you who know...
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Jeffery J. Smith
jahuusax
Aug 2, 2006 5:49 am
... Yet parks exist now in poor neighborhoods and would flourish in neighborhoods where people did not pay tax on their structures and found jobs helping...
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Dan Sullivan
dansullivan0
Aug 2, 2006 5:49 am
... Then don't build one. There is nothing in LVT that makes you build something that makes no sense. Really, it's all a question of cost and benefits. How...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Aug 3, 2006 10:08 am
Can anyone help Wyn? Best Wishes, Dave Dave Wetzel Vice-Chair TfL Tel: 020 7126 4200 ... From: Wyn Achenbaum <wyn@...> To: MTTS@......
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Mark Monson
mark_monson2
Aug 4, 2006 2:07 pm
LVT News Digest - 3 August 2006 Mark Lause's Young America [book review] Swans - Menlo Park,CA,USA ...Mark Lause's /Young America: Land, Labor and Republican...
Hi! We not only teach about privilege, we also explain countervailing privilege - perhaps equally dangerous. I don't think I've mentioned it before - so here...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
Aug 9, 2006 3:45 pm
Dear Value Capture Friends, There is a discussion going on over at the New Mobility Agenda (http://www.newmobility.org <http://www.newmobility.org/> ) where...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Aug 10, 2006 6:08 am
Hi Kent, I was very concerned to read that china is pushing such a large road-building programme. Although I welcome traffic tolls to pay for these new roads...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Aug 10, 2006 1:30 pm
CHEERS Kent, I'm travelling to Oxford today for a couple of meetings so am not in my London office but I'll ask my PA Vicky to send you my article on transport...
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Julien Gross
juliengross1
Aug 11, 2006 9:39 am
On 7 Aug 2006, at 09:41, Wetzel Dave wrote: Hi,Dear Dave, I reply to Paul Metz's question I would rather settle for a more modest wish of: NATIONALISATION of...
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Jock Coats
jockox3
Aug 11, 2006 3:43 pm
...the economist versus the public. Here a link to a blog I watch called the "Tax Foundation". American oriented, but they're getting into a discussion about...
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Paul Metz
mtz_pl
Aug 12, 2006 8:26 am
Julien, Dave, others, These are good starts. Your wishes (more than a century old) are quite ambitious and quite different, however. When we have more votes,...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Aug 12, 2006 11:55 am
You are now addressing a different question Paul. 1. You ask "Can we first decide what each of us would consider a success?" I have given my answer re the...
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Mark Monson
mark_monson2
Aug 15, 2006 5:15 am
LVT News Digest - 14 August 2006 Dawn of Doomesday downloading - The Carole Dwyer Feature Richmond and Twickenham Times - UK .. Domesday downloading has...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Aug 18, 2006 9:15 am
... Out of interest, is there a citable source of evidence for that? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Can anyone urgently answer this question...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
Aug 18, 2006 1:11 pm
Dear Friends, In partial response to Dave Wetzel’s short note under this heading this morning, this is to let you know that we have in fact decided to take a...
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Dan Sullivan
dansullivan0
Aug 18, 2006 1:14 pm
... I suspect that the only evidence is indirect, and that the only argument is common sense. Obviously, people who want to use transit will pay more to be in...
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Fred Foldvary
ffoldvary
Aug 18, 2006 5:53 pm
... The practice of private communities provides some evidence. For example, the retirement community of Rossmoor, California, provides a free shuttle within...
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Dan Sullivan
dansullivan0
Aug 19, 2006 9:11 am
The only solid objection I have heard to free transit was more sociological than economic. It was argued that free transit would be used by adolescents who...
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Paul Metz
mtz_pl
Aug 19, 2006 9:13 am
The city of Hasselt in Belgium has a free bus service, which made (planned in the 1990s) huge investments in streets and parking facilities unnecessary. ...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
Aug 19, 2006 9:52 am
Dear Colleagues In our work to provide coverage of city wide free transport services in the context of the Wikipedia entry ...
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Jon Mendel
jon_mendel2000
Aug 19, 2006 1:07 pm
I think that very low (even just nominal) fares might be better than no fares. If transport is free, people may use it for pretty trivial reasons (for...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
Aug 19, 2006 4:05 pm
In response to Fred Foldvary's note of yesterday on this: Our interest over at the New Mobility Agenda in the topic of free fares for public transport is to...
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Dan Sullivan
dansullivan0
Aug 19, 2006 4:06 pm
This raises the distinction between user fees and congestion charges. During peak periods, the fares should be enough to prevent overcrowding. Those who do not...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
Aug 19, 2006 6:42 pm
Dan, I think we may have a cart/horse transport problem here. Let me comment briefly on your good points: 1. During peak periods, the fares should be...
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Harry Pollard
haledward1
Aug 19, 2006 6:45 pm
Good one, Dan. I have a question I give to students. "The largest people transportation system in this city is free. What is it?" Students from Junior High to...
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Mark Porthouse
markporthouse
Aug 19, 2006 6:51 pm
Hi Dan, et al, If I'm not mistaken I detect a an anomaly in the idea of free fares within what I see as the laissez faire free market of LVT (which is played...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Aug 20, 2006 11:03 am
Surely, Mark's LVT/laissez-faire free market approach: "if a society chooses to have a publicly owned road/transit system then the road/transit users should...
