Two blocks away from my house, there is a 5500 sf building on a 25,500 sf lot--a FAR of 0.22. Formerly a Chinese restaurant, the building spent about two years...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Jun 2, 2007 1:44 pm
This from ABC's web site: http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=3234523&page=1 Notice that what's actually stressed in the article is the refusal of...
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barrydrivesouth32208@...
barrydriveso...
Jun 5, 2007 6:42 pm
This story was sent to you by: jonathan st.thomas ... MTA to add Rapid bus lines ... Touting the success of several high-efficiency routes, the transit agency...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Jun 7, 2007 11:22 pm
... -- Richard Risemberg http://www.bicyclefixation.com http://www.newcolonist.com http://www.rickrise.com...
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Todd Edelman, Green I...
uciteledelman
Jun 8, 2007 3:15 pm
Speaking of closed roads, the following from 7 June www.dutchnews.nl: Driven mad - Now here is a novel idea to solve the Netherlands’ endless traffic jam ...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Jun 10, 2007 1:26 pm
AGING OF THE BABY BOOM: A COMMUNITY ‘BLUEPRINT FOR ACTION’ By Neal Peirce What will the aging of the Baby Boom generation mean for America’s communities?...
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Markus Heller
mhpheller2003
Jun 10, 2007 9:48 pm
Hi all German understanding people, the German version of J.H. Crawford`s "Carfree Times" is now available via the website of autofrei leben! e.V. (carfree...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Jun 10, 2007 11:33 pm
Markus, no photographs are available!!!!!!! Joel ... J.H. Crawford Carfree Cities mailbox@......
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Markus Heller
mhpheller2003
Jun 11, 2007 12:18 am
hope our webmaster will fix that soon in #46 ... too bad, I`m very sorry ! Markus ... From: J.H. Crawford To: carfree_cities@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June...
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dawie_coetzee
Jun 11, 2007 12:22 pm
Of course that is no solution. The problem with cars "becoming less polluting all the time" is that that process is inextricably linked to a manufacturing...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Jun 11, 2007 10:53 pm
Mark Fleischmann sent this interesting article to me: In the first stages of its coverage of Mayor Bloomberg's proposal for congestion pricing in midtown...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Jun 11, 2007 11:20 pm
... -- Richard Risemberg http://www.bicyclefixation.com http://www.newcolonist.com http://www.rickrise.com...
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Jym Dyer
jymdyer
Jun 11, 2007 11:31 pm
"The cars below knew nothing. People in cars weren't New Yorkers anyway, they'd suffered some basic misunderstanding." -- Jonathan Lethem,...
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Jym Dyer
jymdyer
Jun 12, 2007 12:02 am
... =v= Sigh. This trendazoid prose is annoying. The U.S. pattern of mall-sprawl is a project started by an earlier generation (think Robert Moses and the...
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rickrise@...
rickrise
Jun 12, 2007 2:59 pm
Paving the Way Effort to Make Downtown More Walkable Takes Big Step This Week When the city's Planning Commission released a fiery memorandum in April, under...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Jun 13, 2007 1:45 am
... -- Richard Risemberg http://www.bicyclefixation.com http://www.newcolonist.com http://www.rickrise.com...
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Matt Hohmeister
mdh6214
Jun 13, 2007 12:38 pm
StarMetro, Tallahassee's transit system, has just recently stopped accepting pennies in their fareboxes. It sounds like they were tired of holding up buses...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Jun 13, 2007 2:14 pm
Newspaper people often have trouble with math.... Can Amtrak really be as little as 20% more efficient than planes and cars??? Joel ... J.H. Crawford...
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Matt Hohmeister
mdh6214
Jun 13, 2007 6:11 pm
http://www.airwaysociety.org/airway/milespergallon/index.htm I'm not attesting to this page's accuracy, but if it is accurate...it says as much as 108 ...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Jun 13, 2007 10:21 pm
I don't trust that page; I've found a number of errors without really looking. Surely someone, somewhere has put together a good synopsis. You have to be...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Jun 13, 2007 10:43 pm
... Leaving aside the question of whether a 500-mile trip in a Honda Civic crammed with five passengers would be tolerable, I still fell that the numbers are...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Jun 13, 2007 10:54 pm
This WikiPedia article is also worth a look, but it is also not flawless: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_efficiency_in_transportation Passenger trains, by...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Jun 13, 2007 11:11 pm
... As far as I know there has been one fatality in forty+ years of bullet train travel: in Germany (faulty wheel caused a derailment). Japan initiated...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Jun 13, 2007 11:24 pm
... Not to pick nits, but the German ICE wreck facts are: Nearly 100 killed Speed only 200 km/hr (not true high-speed operation) A tire came off a wheel, train...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Jun 14, 2007 12:13 am
Hmmm--sorry about that. I was working from memory and did not double check as I did with the Japanese info. Rick ... -- Richard Risemberg ...
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Joel Siegel
siegeljd
Jun 14, 2007 1:37 am
I'm hoping this is on-topic (certainly follows the subject line). It concerns the fuel/energy requirements for _high-speed_ rail. George Monbiot has an...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Jun 14, 2007 1:44 am
... That's physics at work: resistance increases with the square of the speed. There are ways around it, to a degree. If the trains are light, energy...
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dawie_coetzee
Jun 14, 2007 1:12 pm
There are secondary effects that are not reflected in any of these comparisons. For instance, a railway station within easy reach of pedestrians will both be...
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Greg Steele
gregsteele19380
Jun 14, 2007 2:34 pm
There is an accountant joke I once heard where three accountants are applying for an executive position. The CEO of the company asks each of the candidates...
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Jym Dyer
jymdyer
Jun 14, 2007 2:34 pm
... =v= In the U.S. cars are rarely filled to seating capacity. The average ridership is slightly over 1 person per car. So it's hard to take numbers like that...
