I just found this, which may be of some interest. It's in German, but you can alwasy get the gist with babblefish.altavista.com: http://www.velojournal.ch ...
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Boileau,Pierre [NCR]
Pierre.Boileau@...
Oct 19, 2001 3:00 pm
Hi Bill, The unfortunate thing about Toronto (metropolitan that is) is that you are a minority amongst millions who struggle daily to make sense of their ...
This came from the Urb-Eco list & I thought the Carfree list should see it as well: From: "Michael Meuser" <meuser@...> Subject: [urb-eco] Air...
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Tony Brewer
tony@...
Oct 21, 2001 11:41 am
"BedZED, the Beddington Zero Energy Development, is an environmentally-friendly, energy-efficient mix of housing and work space in Beddington, Sutton, (South...
This excellent site is full of data on light rail initiatives and reasons why they should be supported: http://www.lightrailnow.org/progress/myths.htm --...
In promoting the car free concept in a local TOD design for a new metro stop in an undeveloped greenfield, a couple of questions are likely to come up and I'd...
... The tunnel might be a solution for more than just the supermarket. Most or all large freight customers might make use of it. Since there's nothing existing...
San Francisco and Manhattan are two of the more pleasant and livable large cities. In both cases, their compactness was forced upon them by geography, one at...
Portland, Oregon The downtown area is limited by the hills to the west and south. John Andersen Unconventional Ideas at http://www.unconventionalideas.com ... ...
I'm curious how people here see their goal. When I think of how I like to live, the important thing is not that there are no cars, but that the city is compact...
I think your approach is reasonable, and in many North American cities, achievable. In my opinion, NYC, Boston, Toronto, Washington DC, SF, Portland,...
... To me, this is better than what we have in most Western cities, but it is not enough. I live in Amsterdam, a compact city, and do not own or miss having a...
... I agree. The cities John lists are nice cities, and friendlier to pedestrian traffic than most. But I think they're a long ways from what people are...
... Well, it' seems a lot easier to my eye for someone on crutches or in a wheelchair to take the elevator down to a subway platform and roll directly onto a...
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Richard Moseley
nuneatonrich@...
Oct 29, 2001 4:55 pm
I will be finishing my degree next summer in the UK and will be looking to work for 6-9 months in my year off. What I would ideally like to do is to work for...
... The carfree city, if properly implemented, would be the most accessible urban form ever implemented. Curbs can be completely eliminated (although there may...
... Some construction equipment can be loaded aboard a metro- freighter and delivered to the district in question. From the point of unloading, it will have to...
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Louis-Luc
exqmtl@...
Oct 30, 2001 2:51 am
My opinion on that is that true carfree cities or places are way ahead cities with cars, even if you can live carfree in the latter, because the main thing is...
Oklahoma City is an example of the exact opposite. Where geography arguably encourages sprawl. There are no barriers to growth or extending infrastructure in...
I don't believe that only geography determines the destiny of a city in this way, and that history and policy has more to do with the compactness of a city....
But then again, there are places where there isn't much of any barriers that would keep them reigned in, but they have taken steps to prevent any type of the...
... carry ... objection ... And as you mentioned the other day, an underground road can bring in supplies to the center of a district that is being added on to...
... JH> I have never seen a serious alternative to this; I have always JH> seen the need for conventional emergency vehicles to use the JH> streets, although...
... There are a fair number of motorized vehicles in Siena, enough to make it sometimes uncomfortable to walk in the streets. As usual, they are driven too...
... Not every walkway necessarily needs to have this capacity. Some of the bridges crossing the below-grade road could be bike- and pedistrian-only. ... Always...
New Yorkers Take to Biking Since Attacks By Kathy Chu 10/30/2001 The Wall Street Journal Page B11F Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) NEW YORK --...
http://www.hoosiertimes.com/stories/2001/10/31/news.011031_HT_C1_JLR91378.sto?PREVURI=%2Fstories%2F2001%2F10%2F31%2Findex City council to vote tonight on bike,...
It's here! Go to http://www.newcolonist.com and peruse our November issue. We are featuring Urban Rivers this month, as well as general interest stories,...
