An important principle to remember is that people are naturally inclined to avoid doing things that are impossible or overly difficult for them. That's why...
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dubluth <dubluth@....
dubluth
Feb 4, 2003 7:12 pm
It was in the state of the Union address and there are articles on the subject in some newspapers. The Sunday, Feb 2 Seattle Times published an article by...
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Jym Dyer
jym@...
Feb 4, 2003 7:44 pm
=v= The Shrub mentioned $1.2 billion "so that the first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen, and pollution-free." With this turn of...
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Feb 4, 2003 8:44 pm
In any case, fuel cells will be a joke after natural gas production peaks in North America, probably around 2020. Even now, North American drilling crews are...
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Steve <esdol@...>
excalibur514
Feb 4, 2003 9:07 pm
Hi Mike, Few things come to mind. Are the buses and trains accessible for persons with disabilities especially for those using wheelchairs and scooters? I use...
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Feb 4, 2003 9:20 pm
Dallas Area Rapid Transit's light rail cars can handle customers with disabilities, as well as DART's buses. Dallas' stations below ground have elevators. In...
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Feb 4, 2003 9:29 pm
Pushed "send" too soon. Bike storage can either be exterior or interior. On DFW commuter trains, a section without seats is available for bicycles. In the...
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Steve <esdol@...>
excalibur514
Feb 4, 2003 9:31 pm
Hi, Yes, I would be opposed to mudifying historic objects as well, Mike. It's like renovating cathedrals in such manner that it "defaces" the value of history...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Feb 4, 2003 10:05 pm
... Few things come to mind. Are the buses and trains accessible for persons with disabilities especially for those using wheelchairs and scooters? I use a...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Feb 5, 2003 9:52 am
Mike Harrington said: I take issue with several of these points, which I regard as dangerous to our efforts. ... This is probably approximately correct....
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paulparma <info@.....
paulparma
Feb 5, 2003 2:30 pm
The bring it on board accomodations, more easily provided by rolling stock than buses can be a good system. The limited rack system can't be successful I...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Feb 5, 2003 2:44 pm
Hi All, There's another, much simpler appoach to this problem, which is the use of "white bikes," loaner bikes that you "drag and drop." You'd ride your own...
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Jason Davies
ophiochos
Feb 5, 2003 2:50 pm
... they were also stolen within hours in Cambridge (UK) a few years ago. All of them..:-) but I don't see that this solves too many problems. Most of the...
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Patrick McDonough
mcdonpj
Feb 5, 2003 3:03 pm
We have racks on buses in Chapel Hill-Carrboro, NC, and generally it works quite well. Despite the high number of those who bike in the area, the policy is if...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Feb 5, 2003 3:13 pm
... I think you can hang on to the bike until you're done. ... Some of these bikes are designed to be bullteproof--solid tires, that sort of thing. It hasn't...
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Pedaldancer@...
pedaldancer
Feb 5, 2003 3:38 pm
Correct me if I am wrong. I believe it was part of the deal, in order for L.A., to receive monies, for their subway system, from the goverment, they had to...
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tomvolckhausen <to...
tomvolckhausen
Feb 5, 2003 6:51 pm
In the Denver metro area, bikes on buses works very well. The regional transit buses allow bikes in the underseat luggage bins. That's how I got to work...
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Mark Watson
carfree_seattle
Feb 5, 2003 7:49 pm
Bike racks on buses *are* used a fair bit here in Seattle. And like Paul in Austin, some routes are often quite full. One of the 2 floating bridges that...
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Steve <esdol@...>
excalibur514
Feb 5, 2003 8:34 pm
Hi, Sorry about the photo, I just wanted to test my theory with msn because in their groups I can't post photos. I'll delete it if needed. Steve...
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paulparma <info@.....
paulparma
Feb 5, 2003 9:08 pm
... Since Tom touched on both issues and most relavently to JH's response to both, I'll respond to both as well in one message. Regarding the bike rack thing,...
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Jason Davies
ophiochos
Feb 5, 2003 9:52 pm
... which photo? did you forget as I often to, or was it stripped out?...
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Steve <esdol@...>
excalibur514
Feb 5, 2003 10:28 pm
The photo's still there. Click Photos link. Steve...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Feb 5, 2003 11:08 pm
... I'm not sure. I think different implementations are different. I know that the current Amsterdam trial involved unlocking a bike by inserting a smart-card...
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Jason Davies
ophiochos
Feb 5, 2003 11:25 pm
... I'm getting email versions. No pictures...:-)...
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Feb 6, 2003 2:06 am
No worries about "cars forever." Renewables will never make up for a North American economy where each individual now consumes their own weight in fossil...
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Steve <esdol@...>
excalibur514
Feb 6, 2003 2:12 am
Jason, Read carefully. Click the Photos Link. I'm not emailing it to members. I just posted it to test something.... :) I wrote: The photo's still there. Click...
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Steve <esdol@...>
excalibur514
Feb 6, 2003 3:52 am
Hi Jules, I can delete the photo if you and others want. I just wanted to figure out why I couldn't post in msn groups while I had no problem posting them in...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Feb 6, 2003 9:51 am
... Yes, worries about cars forever. That's what I was saying in my last post. If we have 250 MPG vehicles (now on the road) and even quite modest levels of...
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turpin <turpin@......
turpin
Feb 6, 2003 4:57 pm
... Why is everyone in this discussion omitting the energy source whose use clearly will increase if oil prices soon soar? That is nuclear, of course. You may...
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turpin <turpin@......
turpin
Feb 6, 2003 5:06 pm
... Why? I understand why people want cell phones out of cars, or at least, out of the driver's hand. But why out of cities? (Just to remind people of my own...
