The impression I got from the comments is that they started out by being strongly adverse but became more balanced later on. Maybe the abusive people got fed...
Dear Friends, As the planet warns I am slaving away to complete as quickly as my brain and energies permit an independent thinkpiece and over report for the...
... schemes as "just ... that they can ... -- and given ... advantage of this ... The problem with using congestion charging (or taxes on any other social...
I have been getting a number of requests from people and groups asking if I can help them get a handle on the Transantiago project, and recently someone –...
U.S. Funds Sought for D.C. Traffic Study By Eric M. Weiss <http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/eric+m.+weiss/> Washington Post Staff Writer ...
From my blog. Richard Layman http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com Congestion pricing and tolls aren't the magic bullets for DC transportation policy From...
From my blog. Richard Layman http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com Congestion pricing and tolls aren't magic bullets; DC needs a linked paradigm for...
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Todd Alexander Litman
litman@...
May 5, 2007 7:08 am
"Valuing Transit Service Quality Improvements: Considering Comfort and Convenience In Transport Project Evaluation" (http://www.vtpi.org/traveltime.pdf ) This...
My fond hope and firm guess is that Dave Holladay will not mind my sharing this posting with you all. These are good points and certainly need to be taken into...
How is it that this bus purportedly holds so many passengers? Thanks. Richard Layman, DC From the wikipedia entry: The articulated B9SALF Volvo bus has a...
links to at least one of the London borough bicycle pool programs would be appreciated. Following through and looking up the TfL website on cycling is...
Dear JK, That’s extremely interesting that you would look at my “criteria scorecard” or whatever one might wish to call it in the context of Transantiago...
After reading the condemnation of the PM in the survey by YouGov, http://www.yougov.com/archives/pdf/TEL070101010_3.pdf i found another one on road pricing,...
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Eric Bruun
ericbruun@...
May 6, 2007 6:45 am
Becuase not only is it a very long bus, the crowding standard is either 6 or 7 persons per square meter. 4 persons per square meter is considered a crush load...
I wondered if it had any seats. Buses that size in U.S. BRT systems are listed as having a capacity of 80 people. That's why I've been thinking about double...
On Behalf Of Madhav Badami, Prof. Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 5:00 PM Hello all, I saw this report in the Guardian just now ... the M1 widening is estimated to...
5.1billion to widen the M1 would indeed be enough to buy every man woman and child in the UK a new bicycle, of course there would still be very few safe places...
The problem with double-deckers is their "loading and unloading" times. BRT buses in Bogot have their doors open during 27 seconds per station, which would at...
I just read this... 17.8 million USD to do a study! But there's no money to really improve public transport. Best regards, Carlos F. Pardo Eric Britton wrote: ...
"Please below find the Final Announcement for the seminar on the implementation of congestion charging in Stockholm on May 30, 2007. If you are not interested...
On Behalf Of Todd Alexander Litman Please cite sources for the claim that 40% of fuel is used from idling. I suspect that it is a misinterpretation of the...
To: NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com Ref: Debate on Transantiago, Wikipedia entries, others. In reference to Carlos Pardo’s note, on crush-load factors and...
On Behalf Of Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory "...Rooted in a zero carbon ambition, the city itself is carfree. With a maximum distance of 200m to the nearest...
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Eric Bruun
ericbruun@...
May 9, 2007 8:52 pm
Lake A question: What types of right-of-way separation for buses did Transantiago get? Without that, any new bus system in a congested city would be doomed to...
Eric -- Transantiago involves little right-of-way separation to date, and the few segregated lanes are under construction, but not ready yet. Moreover, they...
The following notice just in via Sustran from Sujit Patwardhan. I thought that the Pune case was so interesting that I just went in and cut and pasted it just...
On Behalf Of Madhav Badami, Prof. Hello all, Quite apart from what idling (or indeed motor vehicle activity generally) does in terms of air pollution and...
On Behalf Of K. Tsourlakis This is what I mean by "perverted way of justification": Roads 'good for the environment', says study EurActiv.com, 11 April 2007 -...
