Dear Friends, This is to let you know that with one eye to sparing many of our colleagues whose immediate level of interest in these discussions of preparing...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
Jul 4, 2002 11:36 am
... From: Tramsol@... [mailto:Tramsol@...] Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 1:11 PM To: WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com Cc: tonyvickers@... Subject:...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
Jul 4, 2002 12:25 pm
Dear Mr. Wirthington, Possibly the best place to post your materials will be at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldTransport-Focus/files/Withrington/ - a file...
Dear John, a bit scared because of the "Multitude" repleyed to my little inputt, I am quite motivated as well, to make a contribution to a special edition. A...
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Jain Alok
ajain@...
Jul 5, 2002 7:24 am
In HK, property developments along railway lines by the railway companies are generally used to mainly to generate one-off capital instead of a major source of...
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tonyvickers@...
Jul 5, 2002 10:31 am
HK's land & tax policy is more subtle than that. Enough revenue is raised from Land Premium (about 40% of total HKG revenue) for most people not to pay any...
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Jain Alok
ajain@...
Jul 8, 2002 5:03 am
... While HK property market is far from perfect, I had some trouble understanding the concept of selling the land through a constantly changing valuation....
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p.withrington
p.withrington@...
Jul 8, 2002 8:51 am
In 1966/7 I had the misfortune to share an office with two members of the Railway Conversion League . They believed that the railway lines should be removed...
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p.withrington
p.withrington@...
Jul 12, 2002 12:37 pm
Road versus rail - Facts Sheet number 2 - Safety, definitions and unit costs. Before providing safety comparisons for road and rail it is important that...
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p.withrington
p.withrington@...
Jul 21, 2002 8:47 pm
Road versus rail - Facts Sheet number 3 - Death rates comparisons The only meaningful measures of safety are (a) casualties per passenger kilometre or (b)...
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tonyvickers@...
Jul 22, 2002 10:32 am
What a distortion! Why don't you compare *all* road travel figures, if you're looking at *all* deaths on railway property? What about pedestrians killed by car...
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SAM Aminul Hoque
sam_aminul@...
Jul 22, 2002 11:05 am
I am doing my research on Costs and Benefits for a developing countries urban transport scenario. If I wanted to calculate the "Value of Safety" among five ...
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p.withrington
p.withrington@...
Jul 27, 2002 6:12 am
If you divide all road deaths for 1999 (including pedestrians, cyclists and motorbike people, together amounting to over 40% of the total) by the total ...
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Simon Norton
simonphillip...
Jul 30, 2002 5:17 am
I have only just joined World Transport Focus because Yahoo has been bouncing messages from the World Transport e-group for the last 2 months. I have looked at...
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p.withrington
p.withrington@...
Aug 9, 2002 5:11 am
Road versus rail - Facts Sheet number 4 - Casualty cost comparisons The data in the tabulation below provides the casualty costs per billion passenger-km by...
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Robert Murray-Leach
smogs@...
Aug 12, 2002 9:41 am
I think it is critical as transport proponents to try and assess these kind of statistics with as little bias as possible, so I'd like to commend Paul for...
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Eric Bruun
ericbruun@...
Aug 13, 2002 1:45 pm
Dear Mr. Withington: I am sure that the focus group would like to see your explanation how rail requires more space than road-based modes. I did my...
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Donald Bain
donald.bain@...
Aug 13, 2002 1:45 pm
... From: Simon Norton [mailto:simon@...] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 1:04 AM To: worldtransport-focus@yahoogroups.com Subject:...
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p.withrington
p.withrington@...
Aug 14, 2002 7:39 pm
Eric Braun Thank's for this query I am interested in comparing rail with express bus rather than with all road modes. The following illustrates that in the...
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p.withrington
p.withrington@...
Aug 14, 2002 7:46 pm
In reply to Robert Murray-Leach - I collect such E-mails so as to be able to republish as examples of the comment that railway people tend to make whenever...
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Eric Britton
fekbritton
Aug 14, 2002 7:53 pm
Dear Friends, It goes almost without saying that the tone of these exchanges is gentile and mutually respectful. No nastiness or innuendo, Class. Personally...
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Simon Norton
simonphillip...
Aug 15, 2002 5:20 am
1. It is a fallacy that "poor people don't go by rail". This fallacy is convincingly refuted in the recently published "The Case for Rail" (Steer Davies Gleave...
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Robert Murray-Leach
smogs@...
Aug 15, 2002 9:44 am
In reply to Paul Withrington, Hi Paul, Just to clarify my position, which was misunderstood. My problem is not with the original statistics (the national...
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p.withrington
p.withrington@...
Aug 17, 2002 6:23 am
In response to Simon Norton see annotations below. I trust that that style does not cause offence since none is intended - I embolden my text only to...
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Simon Norton
simonphillip...
Aug 19, 2002 1:12 pm
In answer to Mr Withington's latest message. 1. I am not quite sure who would be supposed to pay for the maintenance of the railway formations after conversion...
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Eric Bruun
ericbruun@...
Aug 22, 2002 5:48 am
I heard the concession to Mr. Withington that motorways have more capacity than railroads. But is this really the case? Does it make sense to compare a highway...
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Eric Bruun
ericbruun@...
Aug 23, 2002 12:36 pm
Dear readers This discussion is complex and I don't have the time to develop a detailed response, but here are a few points. 1) I hear the same definition of...
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p.withrington
p.withrington@...
Aug 23, 2002 12:41 pm
Robert My I-mail to do with casualty costs by road and rail has two parts, namely. 1 Passengers; rail versus bus on non-urban roads: The comparison excluded...
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Robert Murray-Leach
smogs@...
Aug 26, 2002 6:30 am
Paul, Thanks for your reply. Whether I agree with your arguments or not, I think having someone in the forum with a radically different view makes the ...
