London's articulated buses have got a reputation that one can travel on them without paying. Ian, what are the statistics on the efficacy of revenue protection...
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stephenplowden
Jun 12, 2007 8:08 am
A great advantage of buses (London buses anyway!) is that they do not go very fast (door to door journeys, and even many journeys over a bus route, are much...
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Ian Wingrove
ian.wingrove@...
Jun 12, 2007 5:27 pm
As requested, the information on London buses and fare revenue. I have also included some questions to the Mayor on the subject which help provide useful...
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Rory McMullan
roryer
Jun 12, 2007 5:30 pm
Simon, Last year I went on a training workshop to provide campiagn solutions for transport, one of the exercises was to arrange images mostly cut from glossy...
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Simon Norton
simonphillip...
Jun 13, 2007 2:56 am
Yes, I'll agree with Rory that cars are sexy, but it's the sexiness of the rapist or paedophile. I think that the experience of their victims can well be ...
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Jain Alok
anivaarya
Jun 13, 2007 2:56 am
I tend to disagree with Ken Livingstone's argument against not asking people to waive their tickets in front of readers. The smart card system does not require...
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Eric Bruun
ericbruun@...
Jun 13, 2007 2:57 am
Stephen Perhaps London already gets to much linvestment relative to the rest of the UK. But surely CrossRail might also bring some congestion reduction...
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simonfield2004
Jun 14, 2007 7:09 am
A few points in reply to these threads: Low speed limits aren't necessarily a problem if following traffic cannot pass. Rather than having laybys at bus...
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Peter Newman
p.newman@...
Jun 17, 2007 1:12 pm
The smart card system is working well in Perth. Its extremely quick and has cut fare evasion to almost nothing. Peter Professor Peter Newman Director,...
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Eric Britton (Fr)
fekbritton
Jun 17, 2007 3:59 pm
Dear Friends, I am hard at work updating and extending a keynote presentation I made last week at the opening congress for the Cities for Mobility Network –...
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Lee Schipper
SCHIPPER@...
Jun 17, 2007 8:39 pm
Behind Peter's positive note is an important point -- Transit has to work quickly, and fast fare collection is important to keeping the busses (or trains, for...
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Michael Yeates
yeates_michael
Jun 18, 2007 7:17 am
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Walter Hook
fekbritton
Jun 18, 2007 8:41 am
logo For Immediate Release #ffffcc <http://editor.ne16.com/etapestry/rd.asp?desturl=javascript%3AselectColor%28 ...
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Richard Layman
rlaymandc
Jun 18, 2007 12:59 pm
Recently, I pissed off a local councilmember by saying that the $70K he is directing the city to use to "boost" ridership on a bus circulator is a waste. This...
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Au ABLES
auables
Jun 19, 2007 10:23 am
Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) News Digest Vol. 4 Issue 12 19 Jun 2007 SUMA News Digest is a free weekly e-mail publication that features news, ...
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Eric Britton (Fr)
fekbritton
Jun 24, 2007 3:40 pm
Congestion charge gets green light Published: 21st June 2007 08:13 CET Online: http://www.thelocal.se/7670/ Sweden's parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of...
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Charles Montgomery
fekbritton
Jun 24, 2007 3:41 pm
Bogota's urban happiness movement From living hell to living well: A radical campaign to return streets from cars to people in Columbia's largest city is now a...
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Simon Norton
simonphillip...
Jun 24, 2007 8:09 pm
The thing that struck me most about the article was the sentence about people volunteering to pay more than their assessed property tax. This seems so ...
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Carlos F. Pardo
pardinus
Jun 25, 2007 4:39 pm
This is an interesting point. Bogot had a long history of low credibility in taxes. One mayor improved the tiscal system and the next renewed the "image" of...
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Eric Britton (Fr)
fekbritton
Jun 26, 2007 7:38 am
I am working to complete a major presentation that tries to take a useful whack at the challenges of “Reinventing transport in cities”, energized as a ...
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Richard Layman
rlaymandc
Jun 26, 2007 1:03 pm
One of the things that I write a lot about is how roads are engineered. Concrete and asphalt allow for very high speeds. Cars are also engineered to go very...
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Stephen Plowden
stephenplowden
Jun 26, 2007 2:10 pm
Eric wrote 2. Sharing the street with many different kinds, sizes, types and speeds of users brings a new set of challenges to all concerned 3. The significant...
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Eric Britton (Fr)
fekbritton
Jun 27, 2007 5:16 am
(Not to be ungenerous to our hard-working US mayors, but when it comes to transport in cities, I’d say that have yet to get their teeth into it. They cannot...
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Michael Yeates
yeates_michael
Jun 27, 2007 3:33 pm
Hi Eric and others ... Thanks for your persistence with this project.... I encourage others to help Eric as he requests to try to add value to this project. I...
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Larry Shaeffer
larryshaeffer@...
Jun 27, 2007 5:42 pm
Hi Richard, caught the Philly South St reference and thought you might be interested to know that the South of South Neighborhhood Assoc (SOSNA) is just...
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Carlos F. Pardo
pardinus
Jun 28, 2007 6:43 am
Dear colleagues, We are currently undergoing an expansion of our staff in our Asian division. If you or someone you know are eligible for the post described ...
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Eric Britton (Commons)
fekbritton
Jun 28, 2007 5:52 pm
Dear Friends, Some of you have been seeing bits and pieces over the last weeks of elements of an open brainstorming project that I ham trying to help make...
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S.Norton@...
fekbritton
Jun 29, 2007 5:10 am
If lower speeds significantly discourage motorists from driving they will certainly reduce greenhouse gas and other emissions. As far as compliance is...
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Todd Alexander Litman
litman@...
Jun 29, 2007 8:37 pm
See the "Speed Reductions" (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm105.htm ) chapter of our Online TDM Encyclopdia (http://www.vtpi.org/tdm ), which includes evidence on...
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Eric Bruun
ericbruun@...
Jun 30, 2007 9:41 am
Larry Yes, all well and good. As your fellow Philadelphian I welcome it. However, the trend towards reconstruction and new construction that puts parking...
