The promised push to develop, extend and improve our @World Carshare Consortium site is now well underway. Let me report briefly: 1. Cities inventory...
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Dear Friends: We have decided to create a single New Moblity Agenda site and unified discussion list, serving the entire range of sustainable mobility issues ...
This is to let you know that we are making slow but hopefully useful progress in getting the main web site for The Commons Sustainability Agenda (at...
We are hearing a lot about the manifold contradictions and imperfections of the London project, which of course is what the real world is all about. You try...
EU May Require Sustainable Transportation and Environment Plan EcoLinks News Service <http://www.ecolinks.org> BRUSSELS, April 2, 2004 -- Europe's 500 largest...
This announcement has just come in from our colleague Michel Parent of the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, France, who is...
"World Health Day is celebrated annually on the 7th of April. The theme for World Health Day 2004 is Road Safety. On this day around the globe, hundreds of...
While the following is too narrow for most of the members of this list, I share it with you since it also shows the direction in which we are moving on all our...
Tomorrow The Commons, including its various programs, will pass the 100k visitors mark since the current version of our sites were first placed on the web in...
Hi all ... While Dave Holladay reports the "bad" news from Scotland, here is some similarly uninformed decision-making in Brisbane Australia ... from The ...
Here is a thinking exercise challenge for you. Since we here are all seriously interested in changing people's ways of thinking about getting around in...
Terrific event to which we would draw your attention: CITIES FOR PEOPLE conference is a three day program of presentations, workshops and events. CITIES FOR...
4 May 2004 In response to Eric Britton's message "classic bus lane backslide" and taking a look at the news report from the "The Courier Mail -- Queensland ...
Thursday, May 06, 2004, Paris, France, Europe Dear Colleagues: As part of our radical make-over of the New Mobility Agenda/World Transport web site, the latest...
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Karl Fjellstrom
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May 7, 2004 6:04 am
Dear Sujit, I'm from Brisbane, and an avid supporter of the city's successful busway. But I think your language is too strong. I also glanced at the article...
5 May 2004 Dear Karl, Thank you for your message and I'm sorry for the strong language. It is our experience that car dominated planning has caused a lot of...
I thoroughly disagree with Karl Fjellstrom and support Sujit Patwardhan. One purpose of bus lanes is to secure a modal shift from car to bus. If cars get ...
Cheers Sujit. Good to hear your sensible views. I attach an article from the FT's chief economist. Dave Dave Wetzel Vice-chair, Transport for London Windsor...
Did Martin Wolf ever get round to articulating his proposals to replace council tax ? I think that my preferred option would be a supplementary land tax plus a...
Behalf Of David Levinson Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 6:35 PM Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Access to Destinations: Rethinking the Transportation Future of Our...
I think that one of Annette Pedler's worries about land tax is well taken -- it might well discourage people from locating near public transport. However,...
Thursday, May 13, 2004, Paris, France, Europe I would like to draw your attention to a program of the United Nations Environment Program which directly targets...
On Behalf Of Jeremy Shires - Subject: Complexity of Road Pricing Structures Consumers' Understanding of Complex Pricing/Tariffs Structure - Request for...
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edeakin@...
May 14, 2004 6:49 am
Focus group and survey work on congestion pricing in California showed how hard it has been to communicate the rationale for and benefits of pricing, ...
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Karl Fjellstrom
karl@...
May 16, 2004 12:35 pm
Sorry for the delayed response. Simon Norton considers the new mayor of Brisbane 'insane' for removing a bus lane with a *peak* flow of 12 buses per hour in a...
Betty In London we have majority support for congestion charging. The real test will be whether Ken Livingstone gets re=elected as Mayor next month. What do...
In reply to Karl Fjellstrom, firstly I didn't myself use the word "insane" and said specifically that I have no knowledge of Brisbane. However, a bus every 5...
