When people refuse to accept basic mathematics, you're gonna have a disconnect of major proportions. I haven't done an equivalent example (see below) in DC,...
Gabriel The longer spacing between rail vehicles is more than offset by the much higher speed and safety regime at which signal-protected rail systems work....
Eric Bruun
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Apr 2, 2007 6:20 am
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It takes 12-14 articulated buses to equal one 6 car heavy rail train. But you can run at least 30 such 6 car sets/hour moving at least 20,000+ people. I...
WE NEVER THINK ABOUT WHETHER IT'S A "CAR-FREE DAY". Exactly! And there, Jeb, you have (once again) oh so rightly posed both a solution and . . . the problem. ...
Gabriel, ... I don't believe Dave Wetzel is out to stop rail investment. Certainly from the times when I have talked to him in person, he has not suggested...
Exellent reply Simon, In N.Z. a few years ago before climate change became recognised, the road transport lobby proposed raiding some povincial rail lines to...
clean.air
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Apr 4, 2007 9:51 am
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Dear Friends, I would like to make one small point concerning all this from the vantage of the main orientation of what we call the New Mobility Agenda - and...
Commenting on Eric's latest post, I think that one reason why George Monbiot in his book was so strong on the potential for motorway coaches to make up a ...
(This item to be discusses in the New Mobility Agenda Idea Factory, so kindly send your thoughts via NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com) 1. How great is New York...
Thanks, Eric. We have indeed been talking about the idea of "franchising" Streetsblog and/or helping to get Streetsblog-like web sites up and running in other ...
[http://phe.rockefeller.edu/green_mobility/] Commentary: "Toward green mobility: the evolution of transport", Jesse H. Ausubel, Cesare Marchetti and Perrin...
Here in Brazil with Transporte Ativo we have been running a blog since november 2006 and it has been quite a nice experience. A few blogs here follow different...
João Lacerda
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Apr 9, 2007 12:22 pm
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Two things have dome out of my exchanges since my yesterday's posting of this. The first was a kind reminder that each time we post a reference we should give...
It is extremely important to take seriously these techno optimists. I agree that they sound far fetched and they are indeed out of touch with the...
Peter Newman
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Apr 9, 2007 5:58 pm
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... Absolutely. There are signs that ministers at the DfT here in the UK appear to believe that 'technology will save us' too; DEFRA alone among Government...
A minor issue, IMHO, is the "cost" of technology -- there are some optimists predicting "energy savings too cheap to meter", "billions of barrels of oil under...
Lee Schipper
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Apr 10, 2007 5:47 pm
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I agree with Eric, Peter and the other Simon. A few weeks ago I was at a meeting on transport issues in an office adjacent to London's Marylebone Road. When...
João, In a matter of weeks our organization, the Open Planning Project (www.openplans.org <http://www.openplans.org/> ) will have a new service up and running...
Dear Friends, Is anyone here following or participating in the TRB project of the Sustainable Transport Indicators Subcommittee (TRB ADD40 [1])? Attached ...
Dear Friends, I wonder if I might ask some of you to ask in turn of colleagues who are working with long term energy issues, stats, etc. (for example, the IEA,...
Okay Arul, I have had my first quick look at the draft chapter and a couple of things strike me that may end up being useful to you and your colleagues as you...
From: Jonathan E. D. Richmond [mailto:richmond@...] Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 7:44 PM To: Eric Britton; Global 'South' Sustainable Transport I am...
I would like to thank all of you who piled into this important Wikipedia entry for adding information on shared taxi nomenclature and a bit of background on...