Sorry to hear about your friend, but this seems like an accident borne of a careless driver rather than a silent car. Any time I see a car stopped at an...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
May 1, 2009 1:46 pm
Hi All, The other point that needs to be made here is that if ALL vehicles are relatively quiet, they will all be audible. It's only when there is a large...
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Matt Hohmeister
mdh6214
May 1, 2009 8:54 pm
Of course, NYC's high density intensifies traffic noise, but even here in Tallahassee, FL, the outdoors--save for rural areas--are also nearly deafening. It's...
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Christopher Miller
kiwehtin
May 1, 2009 11:45 pm
I realised that some of the terms the Dutch in the clip use might not be immediately obvious. Here are some explanations: (6:11) NS = Nederlanse Spoorwegen...
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Christopher Miller
kiwehtin
May 2, 2009 12:23 am
For those interested in following proposals for mass transit technologies, here is one that I just came across while reading an article on high speed rail: ...
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Christopher Miller
kiwehtin
May 2, 2009 1:03 am
Three articles linked to the past couple of days in TreeHugger tell of some client scientists coming to the conclusion that overall warming of the global...
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Christopher Ray Miller
kiwehtin
May 2, 2009 6:37 pm
After trying several times to post this by email,it still hasn't shown up on the Yahoo! group's mailings even though others I have sent since have, so I'm...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
May 4, 2009 12:25 am
... In Amsterdam I almost never had a problem with this despite being surrounded by hundreds of families with doubtless dozens of dogs. The only regular...
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Erik Sandblom
eriksandblom
May 4, 2009 12:25 am
... A lot of the noise from cars is from the tyres, not the engine. I suspect tyre noise grows faster with speed than engine noise. It would be interesting to...
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Christopher Miller
kiwehtin
May 4, 2009 5:21 pm
An opinion piece in the Washington Post today takes issue with the preoccupation with "green" houses - isolated and "green" only in the design and technologies...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
May 5, 2009 12:56 pm
<http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kbTo-M_pSuw/Sf_aCLy7rmI/AAAAAAAAAq0/ywyALGJ_IbM/s 1600-h/glasses.jpg> Not easy to stay on top of what is important to you in an age...
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Matt Hohmeister
mdh6214
May 6, 2009 12:37 am
My sister and brother-in-law--both American--have two dogs that bark very little. I guess you just have to know how to care for these very attention-hungry...
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Jason Meggs
jmeggs@...
May 6, 2009 1:03 am
Noise is an enormous public health problem which is only just beginning to be addressed again. In the USA, the EPA's nascent Noise Control Division was...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
May 6, 2009 2:43 pm
Excellent article from the Witherspoon Institute: http://tinyurl.com/cg48en Rick -- Richard Risemberg http://www.bicyclefixation.com http://www.newcolonist.com...
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Christopher Miller
kiwehtin
May 8, 2009 5:34 pm
Following up on last week's news of a proposal by climate scientists that we should now start considering limiting the total amount of fossil fuels we extract...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
May 10, 2009 12:10 am
http://tinyurl.com/pmvgw2 RR -- Richard Risemberg http://www.bicyclefixation.com http://www.newcolonist.com http://www.rickrise.com [Non-text portions of this...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
May 10, 2009 9:44 pm
Comment: LA looks at the Portland model for downtown. ... Story: Portland Report An L.A. Resident Considers the Streetcar DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Many people in...
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rickrise@...
rickrise
May 12, 2009 1:24 am
This page was sent to you by: rickrise@.... SCIENCE / ENVIRONMENT | May 12, 2009 Europe Imagines Its Suburbs Without the Car By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL A...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
May 12, 2009 1:33 am
Hi All, The NY Times has an article on Vauban: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/earth/12suburb.html and a slide show: ...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
May 12, 2009 9:16 pm
Hi All, This came in from WCN recently. Note that the first deadline in May 18th! ... J.H. Crawford Carfree Cities ...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
May 12, 2009 10:03 pm
Hi All, Time to put in your two cents worth on the feasibility of carfree urban areas: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/carless-in-america Not...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
May 13, 2009 4:05 am
Here's a charming little article on a few of the better station cafes of the British rail system. The kind of amenities that we often (almost universally)...
Hi All, ... Now, what if they had taken that $13 million and just bought cheap, single-speed bikes (geared a little low) from China? I expect they could have...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
May 18, 2009 10:40 am
From lead article in World Streets <http://www.worldstreets.org/> of 18 May 2009: Transport in Cities: Plan A is Not Working (1) The goal of today's column is...
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Matt Hohmeister
mdh6214
May 19, 2009 8:17 pm
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49302292,00.htm I kind of saw this one coming. Street View had typically only been able to get where a car could go,...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
May 19, 2009 10:54 pm
... One of the many reasons that I suspect that the porters of Venice whistle while they work is to let people know they are coming. People are generally...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
May 20, 2009 6:40 pm
Hi All, This is reasonably interesting: http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/math-and-the-city/?pagemode=print Best, Joel NY Times The Wild Side May 19,...
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Jon Koller
jonkoller7
May 20, 2009 9:02 pm
I once sat through a lecture that began as a discussion on this power effect, and the variables that had so far been studied. One variable that I found...
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Matt Thyer
eyeballgrand
May 21, 2009 9:00 pm
A friend of mine just passed this along and I imagined that some of you probably would find valuable. http://tinyurl.com/r7nkbw I would imagine that similar...
