What do we do next, asks Eric. Some suggestions 1. Demonstration projects with whole towns subject to very low speed limits, enforced by conventional means if...
Thanks for those kind words and good challenges to us all Stephen. A few comments on your first three points if I may with the thought that this might push us...
From: J.I. Monderman [mailto:j.i.monderman@...] Dear Eric, About this discussion, From my perspective to this subject, there is a great new field of...
The humane note has been sounded by the philosopher-engineer-artist who has been able to put his vision into practice. But outside Drachten and a few isolated...
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Jan 3, 2007 7:33 am
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Pretty cool story at http://www.progressivewaynecounty.org/blog/mark_stosberg/2006/09/why_i_trade d_in_my_car_for_a_bike Full text below: Why I traded in my...
30km/h zones on the Continent and 20mph zones in Britain have been hugely successful in reducing road casualties, especially deaths. The city of Hull claims...
Of course lower speeds in urban areas are required, and these ensue naturally when humans are free to use their innate skills and judgement (instead of being...
Martin Cassini
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Jan 4, 2007 7:38 am
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Mark Stosberg wrote... I was afraid. I was afraid I would lose my freedom. I was afraid I would lose my freedom to take a quick weekend trip to Kentucky to see...
1. I have often wondered about the effectiveness of car-free days on the grounds that they don't seem to point the way towards significant progress. I came up ...
Thanks so much Sujit and Chris for getting those good cycling videos to us here over the weekend -- and as promised they have been immediately integrated into...
There is a huge volume of evidence, in the form of before-and after studies with proper statistical controls, of the dramatic effect of lower speed limits,...
1. I dug out my Evening Standard from the recycling bin and found the article referred to by Martin. There was no casualty called Emily Buchanan mentioned at ...
[Note: The full name of this forum, and its unique focus, is Lots Less Cars in Cities. We do not concern ourselves with motorways, other than when they are in...
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Jan 4, 2007 2:10 pm
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I am puzzled by Martin's use of the words "enforcement" and "external controls". I would regard traffic calming (humps, cameras etc) as enforcement, and I...
Yes, I meant Victoria Buchanan. The basis for my assumption that lights contributed to the "accident" is that lights force all road-users into unnatural...
Martin Cassini
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Jan 4, 2007 7:01 pm
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is Cassini an ABD mole in here? "no limits stimulates lane courtesy" is just the kind of tosh that we read on car-nut sites like www.abd.org.uk here are 3...
Yesterday's Guardian article mentioning an article by Martin Cassini made the main editorial page of today's Guardian under the heading "In praise of... ...
Martin seems to hold two somewhat contradictory views 1. Lower speeds are important, but road users could be trusted to find the right speed if they were not...
What about a “Low Speed (less than 30 km/h) Day”? If it is shown that fewer people are injured and/or die during that day (we need good monitoring), I ...
(Thank you Richard. Very nice. PS. We are BTW posting at present only comments that add NEW materials and insights here. ;-) in further response to Martin's...
My first reaction was "super idea" but I think that a feeling that it wd be hard to distiguish the effect of the lower speed per se from the effect of all the...
Happily we continue to receive videos and leads which I am able from time to time either to integrate into one of our existing video libraries, or as in this ...
Eric - perhaps you can permit this version (edited with new 4th para)... ... From: Martin Cassini To: LotsLessCars@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 06,...
Martin Cassini
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Jan 9, 2007 8:20 pm
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[Thanks so much everybody for your ideas and enthusiasm. I shall now indeed call a full moritorium on all future posts which do not contribute new materials on...
Thanks for your valuable feedback. I actually talked to a very enthusiastic person in Pasto (Colombia) who has done a lot of innovative projects there, and...
Two minor points on Martin's post: 1. London does have a fairly comprehensive night bus network which includes services to Heathrow. It takes longer than...
Some respondents will be pleased to hear of the arrest of distinguished historian, Professor Fernandez-Armesto (Evening Standard 10.01.07) for "jaywalking"....
Martin Cassini
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Jan 10, 2007 9:09 pm
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What this note forwarded by Carlos Pardo and Juan Merillo tells us (and which you of course can figure out for yourself) is that the city of Barcelona will be ...
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