Eric, As our on-the-street reporter, can you tell us the impact of stations on the walking environment? Are they on sidewalks ('pavements') or sitting in...
Chris Bradshaw
hearth@...
Aug 8, 2007 11:57 pm
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Fair questions. 1. Almost every station has been taken from street/car space. My own calculation suggests that on the order of 5-6000 parking spaces have been ...
"To all members of CAI, mayor, governor and head of governments, Dear Sir, As you are fully aware of the recent reports release, by IPCC , Sir Nicholas Stern ...
Ron Tan
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Aug 10, 2007 4:06 pm
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Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) News Digest Vol. 4 Issue 14 13 Aug 2007 SUMA News Digest is a free weekly e-mail publication that features news,...
Our friends from Pune, and particularly the environmentalist/activist Manisha Gutman who came to Paris to have a look for herself, have come up with a pair of...
... One can obtain many different estimates of GHG production, by sector. This one is quite high for transport. What source did you use for the estimate that...
Jack, 90% of movement of human and cargo are by seas. Figure from report from IEA and G8 summit. Anyway, it is not possible to have a figure right to the last...
Ron Tan
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Aug 16, 2007 4:21 pm
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Hi all ... What goes around, comes around ... Any more feedback from Paris? MY............... ... Hi all ... What goes around, comes around ... Any more...
Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) News Digest Vol. 4 Issue 15 21 Aug 2007 SUMA News Digest is a free weekly e-mail publication that features news,...
does'nt work...there is too little emissions in the poor world to cut...if 80% of the cars are in the north, investing to cut the emissions from teh 20% in the...
Lee Schipper
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Aug 22, 2007 4:43 pm
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Agree with Lee -- there is nothing wrong with the idea in principle but in practice it can only have a marginal effect. In the UK the aviation industry...
Dear Sujit and new mobility friends, Please don't think that our Chicago CTA friends have made these moves with joy in their hearts. The fact is that they...
Dear Eric, Sujit, I have argued many times against cheap fare policies (i.e. deliberate under-pricing) and that transit should be as close to self-financing as...
I think that the UK (outside London) has been a leader in the proposition that public transport can be self financing, with conspicuous lack of success. The ...
On Behalf Of Christopher Kost Brendan, You raise good points, but the assumption that the transit-dependent can pay more than cheap is problematic. At least in...
With all due respect Brendan, and I do very much appreciate those three important points you bring up (see below), I really do believe that the time has come...
Dear Brendan, I don't want to get overly stuck on the world "free" here, a source probably of more heat than light,. So let me just pop in a few thinking...
Hi all Don't misuse Public Transit politically as a Social Program . Public Transit must be managed as a usual business to show expected services and quality. ...
Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) News Digest Vol. 4 Issue 16 03 September 2007 SUMA News Digest is a free weekly e-mail publication that features ...
Fare hikes and service cuts in Chicago as well as in other older developed cities around the world are unfortunately an ongoing phenomenon. However, getting...
If the alternatives to public transport, i.e. cars, were properly priced and (equally or more important) properly regulated, and if walking and cycling were...
I wrote a paper on these kinds of issues for Washington, DC -- for a class -- but I really need to revise it once more before sending it out. As a talking...
In the U.S., roads are subsidized by about 40%, as gasoline taxes, registration fees, tolls and other "user fees" don't cover all the costs incurred for...
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are also experiencing massive financial problems, and their fares are rising. Cities like Chicago and New York City have much more...
First a bit of information. A remarkably large number of people on London's buses are travelling free. All the pensioners, plus the police and Transport for...
Ian Wingrove
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Sep 4, 2007 9:14 am
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There are also a number of negative costs (although they appear in the positive in GNP and GDP but as real costs in "Green Economics") such as crash costs and...
Another key issue is that when the usage of a service becomes restricted mainly to the less well off this automatically leads to a decline because fewer people...
