Eric Bruun reminds us: "Many planners also don't support BRT because they fear that HOVs, hybrids, and everything else will be allowed in.. . ." Well yes, And...
Eric put it right about rail to the Dulles airport. AS to the rail vs bus comparison, its sad how image means spending 5-10 times more money. Typical good bus...
Lee Schipper
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Aug 1, 2006 10:53 am
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The old Dominion line is now a bike path all the way. No rails left. As to the pathetic service and organization, welcome to the capital of the most powerful...
Lee Schipper
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Aug 1, 2006 11:20 am
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I think that it is wrong to aim for bus priority routes in cities to be fully occupied. A sparsely used route is more pleasant for cyclists and provides a ...
What do you do when you have as many as 30 000 people/hour moving in a dense city and no money to go underground. Im for cycling, as I've cycled to work for 20...
Lee Schipper
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Aug 2, 2006 5:30 am
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Simon, I agree that not all bus lanes should be filled up. That is one of the reasons that LRT is often favored over BRT if the alignment is going to be in a...
Eric Bruun
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Aug 2, 2006 5:31 am
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Simon First, you experienced a typical US transit phenomena: very poor signage. We have all this chatter about ITS and real-time info and we can't even get the...
Eric Bruun
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Aug 2, 2006 5:32 am
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This is a follow-up to an old sustran-discuss thread that began in April (as [sustran] FW: Traffic in India) when I posted a link to a video of a chaotic...
I am very happy to notice that LRT could be in the agenda. The newspaper Reforma just had a review of a project I presented a couple of weeks ago. The title: ...
Dra. Florencia Serrania
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Aug 3, 2006 10:04 am
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John, kindly download from our web site (www.embarq.wri.org) our papers on cars in China. we have presented an unholy future for 2020 that foresess less than...
Lee Schipper
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Aug 4, 2006 6:42 am
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... From: John Whitelegg [mailto:John.Whitelegg@...] Eric (please can you circulate this widely through all your networks. I would be very...
I've done some similar work, focusing on the US, but here are a few sources that might be helpful: The Sustainable Mobility Project has a excel file with their...
The recent Project for Public Spaces newsletter features ' In Praise of Zealous Nuts' who go about restoring social and local transport links destroyed by ...
Some of you have been asking for graphics showing the Montparnasse stretch of the new Paris BRT in progress, not least because it is running down the two ...
This is the organization and the conference: http://www.eceee.org/summer_study I call your attention to this panel... At present there are no scholarships or...
Lee Schipper
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Aug 8, 2006 4:53 am
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Hello New Mobility network - Decisionmakers in NYC need to hear from more people around the world ASAP - we have just a couple of weeks to respond to new...
Metro Rails: where's the money? Bus Rapid Transit makes more <http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=136535> financial sense as an urban...
For anyone who happens to be next to their computer today at noon, Paris and Ljubiana time, you may want to thinking about tuning in to an interview led by ...
Nice example of what can be done with OPM -- Other Peoples' Money! ... Metro Rails: where's the money? Bus Rapid Transit makes more ...
Lee Schipper
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Aug 8, 2006 10:52 am
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Boy, I don't agree with this article at all. First of all, much of rapid transit investment has no depreciation. Most tunnels that were built 100+ years ago...
Eric Bruun
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Aug 9, 2006 4:51 am
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Yes - I find the argument about property development unusual as well. Most motorways projects have aided sprawl in part because the motorways have been...
Roland Sapsford
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Aug 9, 2006 8:43 am
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This was my original reaction to the article as well. In large part, public investment, especially in transit, is to spur additional private investment. In...
There is ample evidence of the same kind of value gain along the Trans Milenio corridor in Bogota. There is no REAL BRT in the US (perhaps parts of Los Angeles...
Lee Schipper
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Aug 9, 2006 1:31 pm
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Here's the transcript of a radio news story with some wonderful comments by participants at the conclusion of Flexcar's month-long "low car diet" challenge. ...
[http://NewMobilityPartners.org] The following article was written after talking yesterday about a problem they are facing with Paul Steely White of...
Robert, ... GNER introduced an extra train, billed as a "commuter train" from Leeds to London, which exists mainly to pick up commuters from places like...
The problem with DC nimbys vis-a-vis appropriate density that is transit oriented are legion. My response is that the dominant planning and development...
Recently it seems to be almost fashionable to defend BRT as a great solution for urban transport. As a brazilian I could get to know the Curitiba system. And...
Thats an even better way of putting it, people trying to bring the decentralized world with them into the city. I should say I cycle 7.5 km each way to work at...
