On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:46:34 -0500 (CDT) Richard <rickrise@...> ... On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 06:12:09 -0500 "Mike Harrington" <mike@...> ... But...
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Oct 1, 2003 3:12 pm
Mass transit uses fossil fuel, but not as much. That's how the US was able to reduce domestic gasoline consumption to practically nothing in WWII. In an...
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Patrick Kennedy
patrickken11...
Oct 1, 2003 3:15 pm
new report from texas transportation institute states 90 billion is lost due to the american commute. this is getting a ton of press and unfortunately, what...
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J.H. Crawford
carfreecrawford
Oct 1, 2003 3:59 pm
Hi All, Please limit the size of your posts. We have had a couple go by recently that were so long they didn't even download because they were over 25 kB. This...
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Jym Dyer
jym@...
Oct 1, 2003 4:11 pm
=v= Overall I agree with Kunstler's points; I just don't think it's quite correct to call the effect "democratizing" when it's always excluded certain people...
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Jym Dyer
jym@...
Oct 1, 2003 4:19 pm
... =v= And $87 billion more proposed to keep that very commute fueled! <_Jym_>...
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Patrick J McDonough
mcdonpj
Oct 1, 2003 4:24 pm
... Their website is mobility.tamu.edu. I don't know about funding sources, but I'm a big alternative modes advocate and TTI does, in my opinion, very...
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mtneuman@...
mtneuman
Oct 2, 2003 5:27 am
They should have measured the effect of Transportation Demand Management congestion remedies like mine. Pay people not to drive so much. That would encourage...
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Patrick McDonough
mcdonpj
Oct 2, 2003 11:14 am
TDM impacts are notoriously difficult to quantify. Much of TDM is behaviorally based and requires accurate reporting of people's individual behaviors....
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mtneuman@...
mtneuman
Oct 2, 2003 11:54 am
Offering free transit passes is seldom enough to get a substantial number of people to leave their cars behind and take the bus to make a difference on the...
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Oct 2, 2003 6:53 pm
Gulf Coast Institute special reportFor those interested, here's a bird's-eye view of the raging debate in Houston over highway expansion. Will Texas become...
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Patrick McDonough
mcdonpj
Oct 3, 2003 12:07 am
Mike- There are ways transit subsidies can be directed at non-motorized modes. Check out this link: http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm8.htm And do a FIND for the word...
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mtneuman@...
mtneuman
Oct 3, 2003 2:39 am
Good stuff Pat. But it's mainly employee focused. That's fine, but it's not enough traffic reduction. My proposal would be available to even people who don't...
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mtneuman@...
mtneuman
Oct 5, 2003 4:16 pm
Scooters should scoot. Take motorcycles with them. Mike N. ... http://www.gristmagazine.com/ask/ask052803.asp?source=daily The Wheel Deal Sage advice on...
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Ron Wolf
ronetele
Oct 5, 2003 5:41 pm
I'm in Israel for a couple of weeks working for a client in the so called Israeli Silicon Valley in Herzilya, just North of Tel Aviv. Yom Kippur, the most holy...
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Oct 5, 2003 8:30 pm
What we have here is the highway lobby, republican representatives Tom DeLay and John Culberson and former mayor Lanier trying to counter recent polls that say...
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Kittyn Boi
kittynboi
Oct 5, 2003 8:45 pm
Here in Floirda there was an initiative to build a bullet train between Tamp and Miami, but I believe Jeb Bush and some of his people tried to gut that as...
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Oct 5, 2003 9:31 pm
Tom DeLay, one of Dubya's good buddies in Congress, got DeeCee to pass a law forbidding federal rail funding for the Harris County Metropolitan Transit ...
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Ron Wolf
ronetele
Oct 6, 2003 2:00 pm
As promised, I'm reporting back in. My bike ride to Jaffa on Israel's car free Holy Day, Yom Kippur was everything that I hoped it would be. Parent's pushing...
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rickrise@...
rickrise
Oct 6, 2003 10:27 pm
This story was sent to you by: Rick ... The driving factor ... Commute time is becoming increasingly important in home-buying decisions. By Morris Newman ...
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Robert J. Matter
rjmatter00
Oct 7, 2003 4:36 am
Break the Gridlock: Overcoming Car Dependency Our fourth annual conference bringing together transportation advocates, planners, and policymakers to create a...
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Oct 7, 2003 12:07 pm
Looks peaceful, good photography. ... From: "Ron Wolf" <ronetele13@...> To: <carfree_cities@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 9:00 AM ...
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Karen Sandmess
kitka97205
Oct 7, 2003 3:44 pm
Meanwhile, Minneapolis is being tugged in two directions. On the one hand, there is a startlingly larger amount of housing downtown and on the edge of downtown...
In carfree_cities@yahoogroups.com, "dubluth" <dubluth@y...> ... uses H2 ... press ... this ... could ... -- That's just the tip of a huge dirty iceberg.---....
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lockhughes
Oct 9, 2003 11:51 am
... Please amend to say "GAS scooters should scoot" Thanks Lock Toronto...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Oct 9, 2003 7:12 pm
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-walk9oct09,1,4811659.story?coll=la-headlines-california [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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millionairelover446
millionairel...
Oct 10, 2003 1:38 am
http://www.MillionaireMatch.com/i/10 Find your date from tens of thousands of single millionaires here! You don't have to be a millionaire. Free registration. ...
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fredrikbreivald
Oct 10, 2003 4:49 pm
... get ... I am assuming skaters include all of the following: inline skate, skateboards, kick scooters and roller skates (if poeple still use those :) Since...
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amqx
Oct 12, 2003 6:15 pm
Let me start by saying that I strongly support the idea of car-free cities. It fits perfectly with my philosophy that society is based on human interaction. ...
