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...
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SUTP Team
sutpteam
Feb 6, 2008 5:54 am
Sustainable Urban Transport Project (GTZ SUTP) update November, 2007 - January, 2008 GTZ-SUTP wishes all our registered users and subscribers a happy and ...
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eric.britton
fekbritton
Feb 6, 2008 12:12 pm
From a discussion on the World City Bike Forum: see http://www.forum.worldcitybike.org Here you have a draft of my proposed position on this topic. I attach...
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eric.britton
fekbritton
Feb 11, 2008 11:50 am
I would like to introduce quickly this good note from Morten Lange from Rejkyvek and suggest that we treat this as another of our discussion topics, as we did...
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eric.britton
fekbritton
Feb 14, 2008 11:24 am
For those of you here with a taste for this sort of thing this is to give you an idea of the kinds of exchanges that are going on over at World City Bikes...
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eric.britton
fekbritton
Feb 14, 2008 12:28 pm
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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Eric Britton
fekbritton
Mar 7, 2008 11:31 am
The first-cut entry that I started some time ago on "slowth" in the Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowth --is being challenged because it lacks...
Hi Last year I helped organise a seminar called Transforming Transport here in Wellington, NZ. The focus was on transport and CO2, and the potential for...
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Gabriel Roth [mailto:...
fekbritton
Mar 30, 2008 1:08 pm
From: Gabriel Roth [mailto:roths@...] Sent: Sunday, 30 March 2008 05:41 To: thomas.power@... Dear Dr. Power - I read your article with interest...
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Simon Norton
fekbritton
Mar 30, 2008 7:32 pm
From: Simon Norton <S.Norton@...> In answer to Robert Bartlett and Gabriel Roth, I don't think there is any alternative to a free market approach,...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
Apr 8, 2008 7:09 am
Thanks to Aaron Naparstek and Streetsblog for the excellent coverage of these issues and the following item. You can check out both this and the very heated...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
Apr 20, 2008 8:06 am
Dear moderator of "World Transport Forum", The International Institute for Information Design (IIID) in Vienna is organizing a top-notch event this year in...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
May 18, 2008 12:56 pm
[Comments to NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com] From: Lee Schipper [mailto:schipper@...] Sent: Sunday, 18 May 2008 06:54 To: eric.britton@...;...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
May 22, 2008 9:19 am
This is a despicable hatchet job from the rabid right. What is unforgivable is not the tilted argumentation -- fair enough that is to be expected from these...
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Michael Yeates
yeates_michael
May 22, 2008 9:53 am
Too often these types of stories appear to be the almost inevitable result of lazy journos copying press releases ... long gone are the days when the journos...
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Dave Holladay
Tramsol@...
May 22, 2008 1:26 pm
Hamm When you build your cities without sidewalks (aargh! you colonials!) and build places only accesible by car, even a bus with a free bar and at-seat...
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Richard Layman
rlaymandc
May 22, 2008 1:27 pm
The one advantage the right commentators have is the time to be negative, when we are spending our time working on projects to make mobility work better....
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Lee Schipper
SCHIPPER@...
May 22, 2008 1:27 pm
It is worth adding that the US Bureau of Transport statistics puts the BTU/passenger-mil for US buses at around 3400 btu./passenger mile in 2005, while the...
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Dennis McClendon
dmcclendon@...
May 22, 2008 1:32 pm
... A more honorable tradition in Western discourse is to offer arguments in refutation of the facts cited or the conclusion drawn, rather than ad hominem...
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Craig Townsend
townsend@...
May 22, 2008 2:08 pm
The Canadian Urban Transit Association CUTA) is apparently preparing an official response to the opinion column by Neil Reynolds, who is not just any "journo"...
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ablair@...
ablair6
May 22, 2008 6:53 pm
I was going to note to people that Neil Reynolds is known for these type of views to readers of Canada's The Globe & Mail newspaper - note that he typically...
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Lee Schipper
SCHIPPER@...
May 22, 2008 7:55 pm
As I posted earlier, a good assessment of the data from the US Bureau of Transport Statistics ...
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Todd Alexander Litman
litman@...
May 22, 2008 7:55 pm
See my reports, "Evaluating Rail Transit Criticism" (http://www.vtpi.org/railcrit.pdf ) and "Evaluating Criticism of Smart Growth" ...
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Lee Schipper
SCHIPPER@...
May 22, 2008 7:55 pm
The Post published this for me. lee All Aboard the 'Fast' Bus » Links to this article...
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Richard Layman
rlaymandc
May 22, 2008 7:56 pm
One of the problems with the data that "conservatives" use is what it measures. The most widely used congestion data in the U.S. _only studies freeway...
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Michael Co
mike.co@...
May 23, 2008 8:59 am
Dear all, The BAQ 2008 Program Committee has received over 200 abstracts already and is in the process of reviewing these. Meanwhile, we would like to offer...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
May 31, 2008 2:57 pm
Doors of Perception Report ... June 2008 by John Thackara CITY ECO LAB: YOUR BENCHMARK SUGGESTIONS PLEASE City Eco Lab, the "nomadic market of projects" that...
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lake@...
lsagaris
Jun 1, 2008 9:16 am
One the MAP question: you should check out Green Map System, www.greenmap.org <http://www.greenmap.org/> . This is an international non-profit that has an...
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Michael Yeates
yeates_michael
Jun 1, 2008 9:17 am
From Australia ... Southeast Queensland (SEQ) and in particular Brisbane is facing an unprecedented rate of population growth increase from incoming migration...
