From: Richard A quote: Besides the loud noise generated by the freeway, construction on the project caused adjacent land to settle, cracking concrete...
Just thought I'd pass along two stories I found recently. One dealing with the increase in traffic in the formerly bucolic suburbs of Boston, since everyone...
Hi All, I'm no longer able to take the time to maintain the list of carfree places at: http://www.carfree.com/carfree_places.html There are a number of updates...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/printedition/chi-0305060316may06,1,3504382.story?coll=chi%2Dprintmetro%2Dhed Employers use housing as a perk for workers U....
From: Richard ... Speeders Push Past 100 MPH ... CHP says the number of tickets issued for three-digit speeds has tripled in 10 years. By Jia-Rui Chong Times...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/printedition/chi-0305050182may05,1,3307773.story?coll=chi%2Dprintnews%2Dhed Even London's cabbies are pleased The...
I was flipping through the Globe & Mail yesterday (a national Canadian newspaper) when I happened on a full-page ad for the new Honda FCX. No surprise,...
Hello All-- The May issue of The New Colonist is available online now at http://www.newcolonist.com. This month's articles include: An Interview with planner...
Some of the links to RealMedia archives of The Current (those ending in .rm) were split over two lines in my last message. To access the files, you will need...
Yesterday I posted a link to a multimedia web presentation on cities hosted by CBC Radio One's midmorning show, "The Current". I finally caught the third...
From: Richard ... Getting to the Ballpark -- or Around It -- Can Be Daunting ... Fans converging on stadiums can leave commuters in a major league traffic jam....
I find it somewhat disheartening that since I started posting to this list a few days ago, I am suddenly getting junk mail from car related concerns. That is...
Despite being a regular listener, I somehow missed this feature on the radio... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) website has a link to a quite...
Hello Friends and Colleagues: Just want to remind readers of The New Colonist that our introductory subscription rate expires at the end of April, so if you...
Dear fellow members: Hi! This is my first post here and I'm quite excited. I've visited carfree.com frequently to gather information for my project and haven't...
De-lurking here... Thanks for the post, this is bad news as far as car-free cities are concerned. Call me a cynic, but I've always felt that people's driving...
... Who said anything about economic catastrophe? What would happen is that energy becomes more expensive and people have to think more about their daily trips...
Here's an interesting article from today's local newspaper: http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/5702209.htm Blair Stone Road is a four-mile, four-lane,...
http://www.thedebate.org/ As the list of oil countries America has attacked grows, we ask the question: which oil country and opponent of the illegal Israeli ...
*** Plant A Tree For Critical Mass! *** =v= Arbor Day varies from state to state (due to climate), but it's often the last Friday of April, which in many...
hello everyone.... i've just gotta say- msg #3630 hit the nail on the head, about our abyssmal situation here in the so-called "city of ideas". for some reason...
From NoVA Sprawl Weekly (unattributed): FEATURE ARTICLE HOW TRANSIT WAS ORIGINALLY FUNDED Contrary to libertarian revisionism, private mass transit was not...
... In Japan, the private transit lines were also developed by real estate and resort companies. However, the companies also owned department stores, and they...
