There is an illuminating discussion of BRT, TransMilenio and BRT for US cities, NYC included that you can find on the terrific StreetsBlog.org site at...
Here are some comments on the EU Green Paper "Towards a new culture for urban mobility" which have drawn on the TfL response. 2. There are surely some...
Hello, I received a request for help with a project from a local advocacy non-profit group, WalkSacramento. If anyone can provide me with some assistance for...
ETH card can now be used as an electronic key for Mobility vehicles http://www.mobility.ch/pages/img/trans.gif Press release Lucerne, 04 February 2008 Press...
And I generally, not quite like the reaction of this date (see below) from my respected friend and colleague Todd Litman (and surely just about all of you...
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Andrew Curry
andrew.nextwave@...
Feb 4, 2008 8:35 pm
I realise that the public health benefits of lower car use don't accrue to the City Treasury, but I'm willing to speculate that they would be greater that the...
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Roland Sapsford
roland@...
Feb 5, 2008 6:39 am
Hi A major issue in evaluating free transit is that there is limited evidence that free transit increased mode switching, as opposed to increasing use by those...
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Ian Wingrove
ian.wingrove@...
Feb 5, 2008 11:11 am
Perhaps i missed it, but was there anything in the description of the experiment which talked about the modal shift? The number of people who switched from...
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Andrew Curry
andrew.nextwave@...
Feb 5, 2008 1:41 pm
I think the role of 'sanctions' to increase the cost or reduce the convenience of private car use - and thus to make it more broadly reflect its full (direct...
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Ian Wingrove
ian.wingrove@...
Feb 5, 2008 2:32 pm
A quick correction - traffic levels have not significantly risen since congestion charge was introduced in London. However, congestion has. This is partly the...
I agree that pricing is just one element of what makes a mode attractive relative to other options. Personally I think that service reliability is perhaps the...
Todd Litman (VTPI.org) has a nice paper on comfortability and reliability as factors in transit use, and investing in such having up to a 20% impact on usage...
Be wary of your congestion management agency. When our region signed on to the Main Street program our congestion management agency CCAG San Mateo, worked out...
Please read the following and forward this to as many like-minded British citizens or UK residents as possible! A growing number of European cities are...
TO this week's "Viewpoint" on the BBC World Service website: "Making transport more efficient starts with making cities much, much more dense, walkable and...
Be wary of your congestion management agency. When our region signed on to the Main Street program our congestion management agency CCAG San Mateo, worked out...
there are three very good state DOT publications on "Main Street" and highway issues from OR, MD, and NJ. This is the one from OR: Main Street: When a Highway...
I think the following factors ought to be borne in mind. 1. Fare collection -- even the time taken for London bus passengers to have their Oystercards read --...
We have had similar "discussions" regarding capacity of roads in main streets or shopping strips and one of the most heated I recall occurred during a workshop...
An interesting piece & related links from the New York Times http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/can-we-uninvent-suburbia/index. html?hp Kevin...
Michael, ... Certainly, from here in Leeds, I can see that our tentative steps in the direction of BRT seem to be coming from a similar direction to ...
Anzir - The schemes you describe seem a caricature of "Bus Rapid Transit", which cannot be effective without a continuous right-of-way, unobstructed by...
Here is a good question that comes from several of our colleagues in New York, which I would like to share with you, both questions and answers as possible. ...
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Lee Schipper
SCHIPPER@...
Feb 14, 2008 5:31 pm
My daughter lives near the Skytrain, which makes her apartment very accessible.. but others laughed and said "the Skytrain is for tourists and students"....
From: Saiful Alam [mailto:shovan1209@...] Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2008 15:03 Pricing public transit: learning from Bangkok Yasmin Chowdhury When I...
