Welcome to the Carfree Cities forum. I promised this years ago and apologize for the absurd delay. I hope this will become a fruitful place to discuss any...
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J.H. Crawford
postmaster@...
Mar 17, 2000 1:52 pm
This group is not now moderated--any member may post. As long as this continues to work, it'll stay this way. Please be nice, keep it short, don't quote miles...
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Ronald Dawson
rdadddmd@...
Mar 19, 2000 8:52 am
This is the start of some thing great! Ron Dawson...
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Ronald Dawson
rdadddmd@...
Mar 21, 2000 7:20 am
Hi, I found an interesting URL from the Boston Globe relating to how much the BIG DIG/I-93 is costing taxpayers. ...
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J.H. Crawford
postmaster@...
Mar 21, 2000 12:15 pm
... much ... "Project ... and ... Yes, this is an especially absurd case. Putting the freeway underground will be an enormous help to downtown Boston, but...
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frank zappa
jbemel@...
Mar 22, 2000 7:47 am
Hi, I was wondering if there are any cities in the United States that are at least car limited. I seriously doubt any are totally car free, although that would...
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J.H. Crawford
postmaster@...
Mar 22, 2000 2:48 pm
... I don't believe there is any city in the USA that is even close to carfree. Mackinac (Mackinaw?) Island up in Lake Superior is carfree, but that's no city,...
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irv Thomas
irvthom@...
Mar 22, 2000 3:58 pm
By some very affirming act of grace, I have discovered and arrived at your site within days of this discussion space implementation. It feels appropriate, for...
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Ronald Dawson
rdadddmd@...
Mar 22, 2000 10:44 pm
... It feels kind of weird when you see an ad for a Mazda Miata. Look at the example below. Dawson ... To Post a message, send it to:...
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frank zappa
jbemel@...
Mar 23, 2000 2:11 am
... I don't know. How could it be done? Could a bunch of like minded car haters just converged on a small town and sort of take it over? Tell enough people in...
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irv Thomas
irvthom@...
Mar 23, 2000 9:38 am
Seems like an island, somewhere, might be the best bet. Twenty years ago, at a Futurist Conference in Toronto, I remember taking a small (non-auto) ferry out...
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Ronald Dawson
rdadddmd@...
Mar 23, 2000 2:34 pm
... You must be writing about the Toronto Islands. Toronto is a nice place, it's the only place in Canada that did not get rid of their trams. Dawson...
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Craig Bollen
CraigB@...
Mar 24, 2000 11:04 pm
I've always thought that it would be possible to expand the carfree...
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Ronald Dawson
rdadddmd@...
Mar 25, 2000 11:07 pm
Hi, this is a tale of two eras relating to the US federal government. Now http://www.io.com/~bumper/ada0032.htm (this one was done by "Americans Against...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise@...
Mar 26, 2000 1:51 am
Catalina Island, about 24 miles of the coast of Los Angeles, is largely (though not entirely) car-free. There are some private cars and a lot of golf carts,...
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J.H. Crawford
postmaster@...
Mar 26, 2000 11:15 am
... largely ... boat). ... the ... Venice is, of course, made up entirely of islands. The, well, insularity, of islands makes it a simple matter to limit...
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Ronald Dawson
rdadddmd@...
Mar 26, 2000 2:33 pm
... Speaking about L.A. http://www.latimes.com/communities/transit/trains/20000322/t000027207.html Let's hope gas prices stay high enough, because old/bad...
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Khal Spencer
khal@...
Mar 28, 2000 12:20 am
I don't know of any completely car-free cities here in AutoLand (USA). However, while doing a web search on the subject, I found a reference to a Waikiki...
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James Rombough
jsrombough@...
Mar 29, 2000 1:19 am
Fire Island, a long, narrow barrier island off the south shore of Long Island, is car-free. I visited for a day two summers ago (took the LIRR from Forest...
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Rodrigo
rocco@...
Mar 30, 2000 12:58 am
Vigo (Galicia, NW Spain) is a extreme example of a city where the cars, not the pedestrians, rule. http://peaton.turincon.com host "Do camiñar en Vigo"...
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Ronald Dawson
rdadddmd@...
Mar 30, 2000 4:33 am
Hi every body, I found to interesting transit related URLs at ENN. http://www.enn.com/features/2000/03/03292000/trolleys_10325.asp ...
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eric.britton@...
Mar 30, 2000 12:26 pm
Dear Friends, This is a brand new list and already some interesting things are happening here. In particular that interesting information de Rodrigo on Vigo...
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Oliver Hayden
ohayden@...
Mar 31, 2000 6:06 am
Hi folks, I get the carfree e-mails as part of a digest daily, and today it was a mess. Obviously, the server that distributes these e-mails does not deal...
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craig boll
craigb@...
Apr 2, 2000 9:51 pm
Oregon has a growing Carfree culture, its great to add another to the cause. Goodluck...
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Louis-Luc Le Guerrier
exqmtl@...
Apr 2, 2000 9:51 pm
Hello everyone, If you're over 33, you may have visited EXPO '67: the World's Exhibition held in Montreal. You may remember it was a great place where people ...
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Ronald Dawson
rdadddmd@...
Apr 2, 2000 10:45 pm
... Portland OR still has a couple of bumps on the road(pardon the term),to work out. Like Randal O'Toole and Mel Zucker. Dawson...
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Ronald Dawson
rdadddmd@...
Apr 3, 2000 5:23 am
... It's nice to have another Montrealer on the list! I'm not old enough to remember EXPO, but it looked pretty good. (It was Canada's 100th birthday.) ... I...
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Ronald Dawson
rdadddmd@...
Apr 3, 2000 5:28 am
... Welcome aboard this train to the promised land. Dawson...
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Randall Hunt
randhunt@...
Apr 3, 2000 3:25 pm
Randall Hunt randhunt@... DREAM LARGE DREAMS BECAUSE SMALL DREAMS HAVE NO POWER TO INSPIRE...
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Sujit Patwardhan
sujit@...
Apr 4, 2000 2:27 pm
4 April 2000 Hi All, I'm Sujit Patwardhan from Pune, India, representing an environmental NGO called Parisar. Pune is a city with a population of around 2...
