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,...
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Eric Bruun
ericbruun@...
Apr 2, 2007 6:20 am
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....
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...
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clean.air
clean.air@...
Apr 4, 2007 9:51 am
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...
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...
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João Lacerda
jglacerda@...
Apr 9, 2007 12:22 pm
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...
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...
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Peter Newman
p.newman@...
Apr 9, 2007 5:58 pm
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...
... 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...
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Lee Schipper
SCHIPPER@...
Apr 10, 2007 5:47 pm
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...
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...
