Matt wrote: "Call me a paranoid doomsayer, but" Okay, you're a paranoid doomsayer. I sympathize with your frustration, but don't let it lead to paralysis. I...
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rickrise@...
rickrise
May 9, 2003 2:41 pm
From: Richard A quote: Besides the loud noise generated by the freeway, construction on the project caused adjacent land to settle, cracking concrete...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
May 9, 2003 2:51 pm
http://www.trainweb.org/mts/solution.html -- Richard Risemberg http://www.living-room.org http://www.newcolonist.com "The struggle against power is the...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
May 11, 2003 1:28 am
An article from Reuters: http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=VYJMSGHTUWMEYCRBAELCFEY?type=reutersEdge&storyID=2716487 Richard -- Richard Risemberg ...
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Simon Baddeley
s.j.baddeley@...
May 11, 2003 1:17 pm
http://www.thisisessex.co.uk/essex/news/NEWS1.html Colchester UK: Six mile hunt for a parking space A bewildered motorist says she clocked up an astonishing...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
May 11, 2003 9:47 pm
from teh Urban Ecology list ... Subject: Re: [urb-eco] "Oil consumption Party Is Over" Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 11:16:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Louis Agnew...
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rickrise@...
rickrise
May 12, 2003 2:45 pm
From: Richard Again, no mention of energy inputs (aside from the line about the electric coil), and no questioning of whether we've solving the wrong problem...
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Colin Leath
colinleath
May 12, 2003 6:33 pm
*************************************************** First, a huge thanks to Lars and Tom of http://gmane.org/ for making this possible! ...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
May 13, 2003 12:36 pm
Hi All, The May 2003 issue of Carfree Times is now available at: http://www.carfree.com/cft/i031.html This is a "final" draft, which will be published...
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rickrise@...
rickrise
May 13, 2003 2:21 pm
From: Richard ... Speed-Limit Bill Is Approved in Assembly ... From Times Staff Reports May 13 2003 Legislation backed by the city of Thousand Oaks that would...
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Colin Leath
colinleath
May 13, 2003 9:08 pm
Just some good (or not so good) things to be aware of: I continue to be surprised by one thing: we have not yet faced serious opposition from any quarter....
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Patrick McDonough
mcdonpj
May 13, 2003 10:12 pm
The other side of this coin is that it could equally well mean that nobody takes the carfree movement seriously. This may be my American perspective, but...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
May 15, 2003 8:52 am
... Oh, absolutely. We're not on the radar yet. ... That's why Car-Lite is starting to be attacked--it IS on the radar. We need to be ready to respond when the...
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rickrise@...
rickrise
May 16, 2003 4:35 am
From: Richard ... Efforts to Expand Freeways Lose Favor ... Lawmakers say they oppose widening of 101. MTA is told to scale back similar plans for 710. By...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
May 16, 2003 9:18 pm
Lundberg is a former oil industry analyst who once published the Lundberg Letter. His analyses led him to join our camp, and "Culture Change" is his present...
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turpin
May 16, 2003 9:23 pm
I hope Crawford has good servers. ;-)...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
May 17, 2003 11:53 am
Hi All, The Carfree.com server was severely overloaded yesterday starting about 11 PM EDT due to a sudden link from Slashdot.org that brought in levels of...
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Michael A Ohene
mibicycle
May 17, 2003 12:17 pm
Yes automobiles kill far more people than wars. For statistics from around 1964-1975 check out old issues of the National Safety Alliance (www.nsa.org, doesnt...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
May 17, 2003 4:37 pm
Creeping fascism, anyone? And I'm serious...the "unholy alliance" between the neoconservatives and the corporate cult is resulting in more and more instances...
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Michael A Ohene
mibicycle
May 18, 2003 12:25 am
Sorry to email twice in a day. But it seems that the carfee mailing list is becoming a coffee shop where people critisize in their armchairs. For one, I would...
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Patrick McDonough
mcdonpj
May 18, 2003 2:54 am
Here, here, Michael. Something I've been thinking about that would turn at least US transport planning on its head is to get pedestrian and bicycle trip...
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phillip m. torrone
bookofseg@...
May 18, 2003 6:25 am
... pretty much, but this is widespread. it's fashionable to be a critic and naysayer for just about anything productive that solves a problem (or tries to)....
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Simon Baddeley
s.j.baddeley@...
May 18, 2003 9:36 am
I challenge the view that one class of contributors to this list are to be dismissed as "coffee shop" rhetoriticians, chary about practical considerations...
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Simon Baddeley
s.j.baddeley@...
May 18, 2003 9:52 am
1/Giving examples of citizens groups that have improved mass transit, pedestrian corridors, etc. example: The Dallas DART system which was conceived on the...
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Damon Feldman
damo9f
May 18, 2003 5:08 pm
I was thinking of the old "yellow bicycle" program where free bicycles are made available all over town. When people are done with them for a trip or errand,...
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phillip m. torrone
bookofseg@...
May 18, 2003 5:10 pm
washington state just passed n.e.v legislation for in-road use. nev's are neighborhood electric vehicles. with more and more consumers having the choice of a...
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phillip m. torrone
bookofseg@...
May 18, 2003 5:14 pm
in seattle we have the flex car program, which is basically the same thing, but for cars...so it's certainly possible. http://www.flexcar.com/ i'm pretty sure...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
May 18, 2003 5:20 pm
Good site, valuable to all. R ... Subject: Fwd: Public Transport link Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 07:30:35 -0700 From: EMPIREBUILDER <empirebuilder@...> ...
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autofrei-wohnen.de
markusheller...
May 18, 2003 7:37 pm
Hi Damon and pt, German Railway ("DB - Die Bahn", www.bahn.de) runs it in Berlin and Munich with a new system in the inner city since March 2002, more german...
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Ralph
damion023
May 18, 2003 10:10 pm
If you build a carfree city, I will come. Guaranteed. Having said that, when you say the war on Iraq is a "war for oil," I feel uncomfortable and I fear that...
