Romney (BTW has UC-UK wound up - I never hear anything from Tapioca list these days) couldn't resist the urge to respond - there will surely be no need to ...
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Todd Alexander Litman
litman@...
May 11, 2006 5:52 am
... VTPI NEWS ... Victoria Transport Policy Institute "Efficiency - Equity - Clarity" ... Spring 2006 Vol. 9, No. 2 ... The Victoria Transport Policy...
"Highjacking sustainable transport" - What a great and useful phrase! One that we will do well to keep in our sights as proposals and propositions that try to...
Sustainable Transport Project Officer to work at the NGO consultancy Sustainable Energy Africa (based in Westlake, Cape Town) SEA is engaged in various...
Dear Friends, This year, after a number of emails and calls to discuss many great ideas, we are finally nominating two outstanding innovators for the 2006 ...
Dear Madam, Sir, Please allow us to point your attention towards the following, and please excuse us for possible cross-posting of this message: The European...
One of the greater disappointments of my professional existence and struggle to develop some creative and useful ideas to improve the quality of day to day...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
May 25, 2006 10:57 am
CHEERS Eric, Best Wishes, Dave Dave Wetzel Vice-Chair TfL Tel: 020 7126 4200 ... Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld ... From:...
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Chris Bradshaw
hearth@...
May 25, 2006 10:59 am
Eric, I find this list a real yawner. Sounds like a report of a consultant after a public participation exercise, as an effort to show all interest groups ...
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Chris Bradshaw
hearth@...
May 26, 2006 1:01 pm
The idea of temporarily converting a curb parking spot to a park was tried in Ottawa by our Car-Free Ottawa group in the early 1990s. We did it in the Byward...
Chris, it would be great if you could provide more information on the Byward Market conversion thing, I have done a research in a similar issue,...
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Chris Bradshaw
hearth@...
May 28, 2006 11:47 am
Sunny, ... The Byward Market example was not any sustained effort, but only a couple afternoons, two years running. The activists just showed up without ...
A few comments on Chris Bradshaw's paper. 1. Use of public transport does have one important positive factor which should be factored in: it helps to keep the...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
May 30, 2006 3:38 pm
I fully agree with point 5 but disagree with point 3. "3. Small vehicles are only an advantage over large ones if the number of passengers is kept constant." ...
Subject: Transport in cities: Why are we so desperately off target? Doing so poorly in the States? (And everywhere else in the world where our examples and...
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Wetzel Dave
davewetzel@...
Jun 13, 2006 9:47 am
CHEERS Eric, I'm visiting Toronto from the UK. I'm amazed how many "GO" stations (the suburban railway) have huge car parks adjacent to them and no...
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Derek Scrafton
derek.scrafton@...
Jun 20, 2006 4:47 am
Dear Eric, Thanks for sending on this TRB report with your covering comment. I agree - this is the same old committee-driven stuff. I just cannot believe how...
We would like to see more focus on rail rather than road, as it is the much cleaner environmentally sustainable mode of transport that leaves a smaller ...
Vol 12 No 3 is the Special Cycling Edition, so not surprising there isnt a lot about trains in it! Although the potential for cycling to increase passenger...
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John Whitelegg
John.Whitelegg@...
Jul 7, 2006 3:31 pm
Good point about rail and catchment areas. I would like to see an article on this. the situation in the Uk is still poor on the bike/train front: many train...
7 July 2006 Ken makes an important point, but I think it's somewhat more complex than that. Although it is true that rail is perhaps cleaner environmentally at...
... A good background article is at www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm2.htm. Often mentioned as leaders in bike/transit are Germany, Denmark and Nederlands. Japan also has a...
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Tramsol@...
Jul 9, 2006 1:51 pm
My cause celebre - I did a paper for Sustrans - converting their Safe Routes to Stations (which has an immediate bias to rail) to Access to Public Transport....
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Tramsol@...
Jul 9, 2006 1:58 pm
PS European Cyclists Federation paper 133 reviews Dutch cycling to stations, and the 30% main figure quoted for cycling to the station converts to 60% for ...
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John Whitelegg
John.Whitelegg@...
Jul 9, 2006 2:36 pm
Dave, Excellent points. Please let us have an article for WTPP and (if you agree) conclude with a rail/bike charter which we can press government and railway...
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Michael Replogle
Michael_Replogle@...
Jul 10, 2006 7:25 pm
For another recent write up, see http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?contentid=2407 See also some of the earlier studies I did on this subject that...
Sujit, ... I still think it depends on other factors. I agree that city authorities love the idea of Metro systems, but these can sometimes be of limited use. ...
