"What lessons can America learn from the rest of the world in terms of transportation developments that are safe, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable? ...
Thanks to Jym Dyer for the heads-up, Mathew for writing it and Streetsblog for publishing. (Evidence of how networking works in 209.) Eric Britton. (Great...
last I heard the aussies had dropped the Velib bike hire scheme because how can they make it work with their compulsory helmet laws? from WCN#64 - On your...
In the UK, a little snow and everything stops. So I was just wondering, how do bikeshare schemes cope with snow and other bad weather ? Are the bike stations ...
Hi Richard and others interested ... Brisbane's "Velib" equivalent (?) is a goer ... at least it is said to be underway ... but not a lot of detail made...
4 February 2009 But don't conventional modes also suffer in times of extreme weather conditions? Heavy Rain / snow even stops rail services and cars can't out...
One of the benefits of the bicycle is that once you sweep the snow from and dry your saddle, you are ready to go! Hub gears used on the Velib etc. are much...
my office in Hammersmith, West London, was almost empty on Monday - only?cyclists and walkers managed to get?into work?- another manifest demo of our modal...
Helmets have to be fitted properly or they can actually do more harm than having no helmet. (I see many children with badly adjusted helmets and would support...
Well, on Monday I was in London for a particular event, ironically related to climate change, which was cancelled due to the weather. Yes, there was much less ...
I was reading that one of the reasons that some schools closed, was not because of safety or access for children, but because the teachers lived so far away,...
If you cannot park a bike within 20 metres of your destination the conveneience, and thus the level of cycle use is seriously retarded - clear evidence has...
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In case you have missed this... "Lessons from a Helmet Wearing Campaign in Vietnam" November 3, 2008 This paper will briefly lay out a case study of the...
A quick update on this collaborative project which is doing very nicely and is still open to your active participation, either by reviewing and commenting on...
We have use Skype extensively for more than two years now on a daily basis and find it a very useful communications and groupware tool. That it costs nothing...
Just in case you may have the idea that this is easy. This article from today’s Parisian. Machine translation follows. Note : since start-up : · 42...
Follows in english machine translation : Un parking ou on choisit son mode de transport Une nouvelle generation de parking s ou les clients disposent d’une...
A friend who works for the Department of Transportation in the city of New York whose job title is a very promising "Division of Planning and Sustainability"...
A quick note to inform you that we will be publishing each of the contributions to the "Messages for America" project on our New Mobility Think Pad blog, and...
Hi, I am curious... never mind the reality... who is perceived as the owner of Velib? * JCDecaux? * City of Paris? * PEOPLE of Paris? * No one? * One or more...
Our good friend Carlos Cordero from Lima Peru offers this news from New York USA about something that appears to be going on here in Paris France. I shall be...
Here is the entire text of a press release just in from the Veloway announcing two new PBS projects here in France. Each time one of these crops up, I am...
This really surprises me because I was absolutely sure it was not going to pay off in any significant way. But if it does that is great, and who says I am...
From: Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory [mailto:edelman@...] Thanks, Luc!! ... - T Eric Britton wrote: A nice compilation of the various commentaries...
It is amazing how much pleasure certain kinds of people seem to have it comes to burying the idea of anything that has to do with sharing. It seems to be...
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