Hi, I just found this (see link below) and thought it was an interesting way to get a message through (and cheap!)… of course, there are legal issues ...
Cobb targets cyclists Fines up to $500 considered for riders who illegally use roads By CRAIG SCHNEIDER The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 01/23/07...
It's about 40¢ªC / 105¢ªF in Cape Town today. I nevertheless had a lunch- hour walk. Even in the relatively walkable 17th-century core one is aware of the...
Hi everyone. I have some information on some new 7,5t and 12t electric trucks which are headed for USA market. I dont work for the producer or distributor; I...
Hi All, This came to me recently and I thought that others would be interested to see it. It basically validates the work that Donald Appleyard did nearly 30...
BBC World Service has produced a four-part series called "The Noisy Ape": Excerpt from the introduction: "Mankind has spent the entire last century making...
Hi everyone, This was just too good to pass up. PLEASE dont respond unless it is absolutely relevant to the main discussion on this list. - T ****** ...
"The Asian automakers have cornered the market on vanilla," says Global Insight automotive analyst Rebecca Lindland. "Now they're adding the hot fudge...
DONT "JAYWALK" IN THE USA! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6251431.stm ... Todd Edelman Director Green Idea Factory Korunní 72 CZ-10100 Praha 10 ...
Some interesting links I have come across recently here... The CoolTown blog has had a series of articles on "beta communities", i.e. groups of people who get...
Hi All, There's a new Joel on the list, as of now. He's posted something that's so off topic but so good and relevant that I let it go. Please don't let that...
Here in Edmond, Oklahoma, city ordinances prohibit crossing between signalized intersections (as described in Todd Edelman's posting below) in general, but ...
Here's the approach I'm looking into: Land needs to be held in trust, by an organization with an earth care ethic--and removed from the endless growth...
Hi, Recently I think the following was posted on the Carfree Network list: Urban growth and cars: Chicken-and-egg issue By Elisabeth Rosenthal Full story: ...
According to Vauban resident Andreas Delleske (one of the initiators of the project), in the end of 2006 ~1,700 households live in the whole Vauban area. ...
Vietnam prepares for boom times Vietnam is expected to become a member of the World Trade Organisation next week. The deal will help a country once regarded as...
Parisian neighbours meet online Cities may cram people together like sardines in a supermarket, but many of those living an urban life can end up feeling more...
Pretty cool story at http://www.progressivewaynecounty.org/blog/mark_stosberg/2006/09/why_i_trade d_in_my_car_for_a_bike Full text below: Why I traded in my...
Hi All, Carfree.com is in the process of relocating to its own dedicated server. The process starts tomorrow, 31 December 2006, and will take about 48 hours....
Familiy (of origin and of identity): out of desire to avoid the computer but still communicate a little and imperfectly, I'm combining some emails: Small...
Catching up with last Sunday's Observer reviews, I enjoyed these remarks from the design/architecture critic Stephen Bayley: ''..It's five minutes to midnight...
Well, folks, here's another one, this time form Portland, Oregon. Beth Hamon writes about her life in bicycling and how it's helped her live around a chronic...
Hello All-- There's a new article in Bicycle Fixation today: "My Travelling History," by Simon J. Baddeley of Birmingham University, UK. It's a pensive and...
Hi, From my intermittent postings on the theme "What we are up against": As some of you know, Richard Hammond, one of the hosts of the very popular BBC...
How can we/should we (try to) compete with this? - T Renault tunes up Romania's top carmaker Even when the Iron Curtain was fully extended, and consumers in...
Hi Bill, I write in your text Markus Heller http://www.autofrei-wohnen.de/ ... From: "willtell9z" <willtell9z@...> To: <carfree_cities@yahoogroups.com>...
from the December 20, 2006 edition New German community models car-free living By Isabelle de Pommereau | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor ...
Hi, Following is a rather recent development for a hybrid guided "bus" or tram?... and it seems an evolution from previous concepts of guided (but not...
http://www.alternet.org/story/45389/?comments=view&cID=388973&pID=388965 Conservatives' Vision of an America Without Cities By Jeremy Adam Smith, Public Eye....
