Eric What is this total ban that I favour? My views are as I have set them out and I believe that they are justified objectively It is a fact that motorcycles...
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2006/06/01/2003311083 By Jimmy Chuang STAFF REPORTER Thursday, Jun 01, 2006 Taiwan is planning to construct...
Banning high powered bikes in cities is a good idea and has worked in other countries: Taiwan restricts sales of motorcycles to a maximum of 150cc, smaller...
Jane Jacobs principles Thanks to Eric for formulating these principles. I think we would all agree that the thrust of them is right, but some of them seem a...
Michael Yeates refers to people who argue that more passengers means more subsidies. Where do they get their brains from ? The main reason why subsidies came...
Just saw an interesting article on BBC regarding the use of unused railways for highways. My first impression is, very interesting(?) idea! But will it beat...
Jasper, ... The company that made this makes level crossings, and I'm familiar with the panels. The BBC TV report appeared to show it being used as part of a...
Simon, ... Total agreement, supported (in the UK) by: Stagecoach Buses, who have proposed to government a "Kickstart" funding mechanism whereby government...
Absolutely right that we shd apply similar rules to cars - there wd be huge net benefits. This is what I am now working on. I am not sure that such rules would...
This could be used for an 'Express Bus-way system'. In Pittsburgh City, this is one of the most successful transit ventures. These bus ways are also used...
Krishna Rama-Murthy
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Jun 5, 2006 5:07 pm
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Krishna, ... However, there are safety problems if you're running cars and trains down the same roads, unless trains are "driving on sight", which can only be...
Anzir, Thanks for the response. Well, I should have been clearer. An express bus-way system is a roadway system used only for running Transit Bus services....
Krishna Rama-Murthy
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Jun 6, 2006 6:52 am
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Krishna, ... The rubber roadways will not offer much in this case unless the buses are track guided, I suppose, as they incorporate railway track (and will...
Kickstart is a fine idea unless it leads bus operators to cut marginal services so that it can fulfil the goal of eliminating the need for support. One example...
To clarify things, the proposed guided busway covering part of the former railway route between Cambridge and Huntingdon does not yet have agreed financing....
On Behalf Of John Pinkard Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 11:12 AM Vipre Hiring Sustainable Transportation Consultants in Scotland June 07, 2006 Vipre is one of...
Attached is the resulting paper on potential air quality credits from pedestrian and bicycle improvements which I will hand out at AWMA. Feel free to...
Please see the enclosed weblink to the press release we issued earlier this week . It provides a weblink to the new Environmental Defense report, No More...
Michael Replogle
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Jun 9, 2006 7:59 pm
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Michael Congratulations on this initiative but I hope you will treat tolling as only one of the many tools that can be used to tackle these problems . Please...
Road pricing is surely not a magic answer, nor will it be applied across the planet within our lifetimes. But pricing strategies will tend to be a core element...
Michael Replogle
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Jun 11, 2006 7:32 am
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Michael Pricing is, indeed likely to be part of the answer, and probably more in North America than Europe because the very dispersed land-use patterns in...
Subject: Transport in cities: Why are we so desperately off target? Doing so poorly in the States? (And everywhere else in the world where our examples and...
I have just received a request from an engineering student at a university in Lima, Peru. "I'm working in a project of my university. They want to change the ...
Dear all, I followed up on the idea in the carfree_cities list of posting the thoughts and experiences of people while riding public transport, and set up a...
Robert, ... Many universities have what you suggest, a "ring road" with access to all the car parks and departments, and a central part of the campus which is...
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