The 22september.org website has a list of European cities that are taking part in Car Free Day. Other than our event in Orange and Durham county in North...
Hi, I`m a new member,you guys probably have already dealt with this question but I was wondering what are the best cities to live without a car?I live in the...
Suzanne, Eugene, Oregon is relatively affordable, and relatively warm. It is overrun by cars but has a fairly good bus system. Hope this helps. P&C, MM ... ...
Another that I would suggest you look into is Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is very affordable, the weather is relatively warm, it is a college town (University...
... Believe it or not, parts of LA are possible! Anywhere near a Red Line stop becomes functionally carfree, as you can get to about 80% of the city then by...
I'll do another "believe it or not" and point out that as long as one sticks to the old parts of the city (variously called "intown" or "inside the perimeter"...
How about Chicago? If you're a cyclist, it was recently voted by Bicycling Magazine as the number one or two big city in the U.S. for cycling. Of course,...
Thanks Dan for your reply,Chicago is a great city to get around without a car ..I may consider it in the future. ... Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo!...
Thank you for your carfree city ideas I`ll keep all of them in mind.What about Arizona ,does anyone live in Arizona without a car? ... Do you Yahoo!? New and...
Phoenix can be a challenge. The heat and the sprawl put it on the low-end of the easy 'to go car free' scale. However, areas like Tempe have a large student...
I was car-free for the ten years that I lived in Portland, Oregon. Tri-Met, the local transit authority, is unusual for an American transit authority in that...
Portland also has Czech trams!!! Actually SF has Czech buses, but company that made them just went bust.... Todd in Prague, Member, Steering Commitee, WCN ... ...
Karen, Of the other things that went sour, which items had to do with the public realm? Crime? School quality? Bad governance? Were any of these public ...
It never ceases to amaze me how progressive terminology gets adopted and redefined by others, particularly from the right, to redefine the debate. We in...
Yes but. "Smart growth" was rather a successful colonisation by "our lot" of the language and style of the sprawlists. It's a feature of political movements to...
Simon Baddeley
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Aug 3, 2004 7:24 pm
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... I have the very great pleasure of living as a pedestrian in Jerome, AZ, a former copper mining town built on the side of a mountain. The town sits about...
Thanks Randall for your reply,I know about Jerome and I`m quite interested it as a possible escape from MI.I like the whole idea of living amongst artists.i...
Here is a dispassionate account of one hell of a row that happened at a conference in Russia last month: ...
Simon Baddeley
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Aug 4, 2004 8:34 am
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Dear All JAkarta will hold Car free Day 2004 this 26 September. Please share your information if you have relative or colleage that did the same program in...
The main reasons were personal. A lot of groups and institutions that I was associated with started to disintegrate or disappear within a two-year period, and...
I find it quite useful to get myself briefed on this gradually approaching oil umbilical and the hazards attending a Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline. The ...
Simon Baddeley
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Aug 4, 2004 7:46 pm
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After seeing the links to the site selling recreational bloatmobiles today, I must protest my innocence: I got this URL purely by accident while googling for...
... Ummm... isn't that a (ahem!) *crane* in the background of the "hover test" still shot? Ya gotta admit that the line about "our evolutionary path to ...
Hi All, This may be of interest to the group. Anyone want to join in? I have a Word document sent as an attachment to the original message and would be happy...
Barely any mention of housing density here, nor of progressive (really old-fashioned) high-density, where property values and quality of life *increase* with...
An interesting article: http://slate.msn.com/id/2104755/ California's SUV Ban The Golden State has outlawed big SUVs on many of its roads but doesn't seem to...
While our solution would be to limit the number of cars on the road, I suspect the 'engineered solution' will be to increase setbacks even further. -RL...
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