Someone with a medical condition, depending on its nature, might in the UK be classed as protected by the Disability Discrimination Act. In this case, if a job...
Thanks, Alice. There have been several cases where the type of roundabout argument you refer to has been used to sue against arbitrary discrimination of ...
Hi .. Unfortunately, it is too easy to generalise this point but in fact we do NOT live in such a society, some people choose to believe that "we" do and...
up to now, cheap energy has enabled a land use paradigm _in the U.S._ that for the most part requires a car. But the rest of the world pays the price, and...
Sustainable Urban Transport Project (GTZ SUTP) update August October, 2007 This newsletter gives updates on the SUTP resources, news and events related to our...
Dear Colleagues, With reference to "When the facts change, sir, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?", which is still very much in progress, I would like to...
I hope you got some helpful responses ... I don't think any made it to this list. I wish they had. The use and selection of traffic management devices (or...
The following seems to share the same characteristics as other forms of "induced traffic" and "predict and provide" ... if successful, then there is likely to...
... From: Frederike Demmers <frederike@...> Dear all, The OPTIMUM2 website is updated regularly. The following items were added: · Latest news:...
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Eric Bruun
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Nov 1, 2007 9:29 pm
Eric There is a total disconnect between local musings and state government. The Governator and the legislator just funded a highway expansion through...
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Dra. Florencia Serrania
serrania@...
Nov 1, 2007 9:29 pm
Thanks for your interest. Mexican roundabouts do not have rules and therefore, traffic jams and accidents are a must all the time, although those traffic...
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Eric Bruun
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Nov 2, 2007 6:15 pm
Michael I am not sure what kind of society to which you refer when you say we are NOT living in it. As for the U.S., you are most assuredly a second class...
http://www.citymayors.com/transport/guatemala-transmetro.html TransMetro set to end chaotic commuting in Guatemala CityBy Vanessa Plihal, Central America...
Dear all, The latest issue of Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) News Digest is now available. Visit http://groups.google.com/group/suma-news to read...
[And of course as we all know the best, indeed the only, way to reduce CO2 emissions from cars in the critical period (the 1-5 years directly ahead) is to get...
Yesterday we had a meeting at Paris City Hall to look at the state of the art but above all the future prospects for carsharing in Paris - and beyond that more...
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Ian Wingrove
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Nov 16, 2007 10:50 am
Thanks for this Eric When you say car sharing - is this what the British call car clubs? Anything about ensuring that these are all low emission vehicles? Will...
Interesting statement from a mayor of a city that has very good public transport system and cycle paths, ca 70% of commuting trips are made by public transport...
Those are fair questions Ian. Let me take them one at a time: 1. All the world calls it carsharing - except your tight little island. And indeed you like...
[sorry for the cross-posting] Hello everyone, I just read that the Montreal car-sharing group Communauto <http://www.communauto.com/comment_ENG.html>, which...
Dear Friends, We have been flirting around the edges with this for some years now, but I think it is now time to see how we might more aggressively extend...
Eric and Friends London has this month got its first integrated transport map for the whole of London. The all-London travel planner. see www.quickmap.com ...
Thanks to Jerry Schneider [mailto:jbs@...] for this heads-up. I would say this is right up the middle of our case for Reinventing Transport in Cities. ...
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Todd Alexander Litman
litman@...
Nov 18, 2007 3:36 pm
See GoLoco (http://www.goloco.org ), a new service that uses social networking websites (such as Facebook) to arrange ridesharing. The system helps arrange...
Thanks for the bad news Mari. I propose that we bat this around a bit here. To get it going . . . 1. Let’s assume that the mayor Pajunen is not out to...
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Lee Schipper
SCHIPPER@...
Nov 19, 2007 7:25 am
Strange. The Deputy Mayor was in Dalian, China, in early September at a W Economic forum event extolling his sustainable transport plans. Lee Schipper Director...
2 things. 1. Who took the "one less car" photo? Is a larger version available? 2. Montreal, and many other cities, as Eric mentions, finds the issue of...
