http://us.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.dewatering/index.html near the end: Strock stressed that one of the unit's jobs is to find temporary housing for...
It is clear from recent postings that Joel, Todd and I agree that it is inadvisable (to put it mildly) to expend the massive resources necessary to rebuild New...
Very good backgrounder on New Orleans and the disaster. Not pleasant reading. Don't You Know Me, I'm Your Native Son... Notes from Inside New Orleans By JORDAN...
Over the last couple of days, I've been reading a fair number of people complaining (rightly) that there was little or no means of leaving the New Orleans area...
See: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/h2005-neworleans-082905.html for some images of high ground near New Orleans. "High" in this case is...
from: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4206620.stm> Congressional House Speaker Dennis Hastert angered Gov Blanco by questioning the wisdom of spending...
Hi All, Carfree Times #40 is now on line at: http://www.carfree.com/cft/i040.html This issue was a little rushed because I wanted to get the New Orleans story...
Hi All, It's long past time that the Links pages at Carfree.com were maintained. I keep all of the data in an Access database. It's been about 18 months since...
Hi All, If the most dire predictions come true, New Orleans may substantially cease to exist as a habitable city today. While the risk has long been known, the...
Dear all, The GTZ SUTP project has released the new Training Course on Non motorised transport, developed by Walter Hook and in close cooperation with Oscar ...
Hi All, My apologies for the postings on the Link Pages update that were meant to be off list. I've been very distracted by the devastation in New Orleans, a...
Hi All, Please don't do any work on verifying the Link pages at Carfree.com until you have discussed the project with me OFF LIST. Thanks for your enthusiasm! ...
There is something dreadful about the way I can now observe a phenomenon like this about to landfall on a major city as I sit at my kitchen table on a calm...
Who would have thought... See article below, an article about the man-o-steel's statement concerning global warming reduction for California. Best regards, ...
As the cities with foresight plan for greater mass transit, how are the citizens in the areas well outside of the transit zones (especially the suburbs) to...
Hi All, We seem to be crossing a threshold on global warming. Can we use this to get governments to take real action? Regards, ... Ian Sample, science...
I wonder if the author is on either Carfree_Cities or The New Colonist. If he isn't, he ought to be. In transit, Karen Sandness Running on Fumes: A Journey to...
It suddenly occurs to me that perhaps we are selling ourselves short with the terminology we are using. Non-motorized transport (NMT) sounds like there's ...
Hi All-- Here's my 2¢ worth on the matter...or I guess I should say 6¢ worth, for the three suggestions: EFT: Earth Friendly Transport CFT: Community...
Hi! My name is Katti Sta. Ana. I'm a bicycle advocate, a member of the Firefly Brigade, and a former bicycle officer of the City of Marikina. Right now, I'm an...
