Dear Friends,



Martin Cassini, Simon Norton and a few other stalwarts have asked what happened
to the good (if I may) ‘Taxing Bad’ discussions that got underway a bit back in
the New Mobility Café. Well, it got moved over to our Lots Less Cars in Cites
forum, for reasons that I would now like to explain. And while I’m at it, let me
use this opportunity to clarify how we try to organize all these diverse
discussions and keep them on track.



For a good general introduction I would point you to the Talking New Mobility
link on the left menu of http://www.newmobility.org
<http://www.newmobility.org/> . But here in brief is how the turf is
“organized”.



1. The New Mobility Café: This talking parlor for the strategic discussion
of transport-related issues. It is (with the odd wild exception) sober, balanced
and professional. The main site is at http://www.newmobility.org and the mail
address is NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com.



2. Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice: For discussion of
articles and comments and proposals for future issues – the web site it
www.wtransport.org and the mail address for your contributions,
WorldTransport@yahoogroups.com



3. Carsharing (http://worldcarshare.com <http://worldcarshare.com/> ) –
everything on that goes to their forum, for which the group mail address is
WorldCarShare@yahoogroups.com>



4. Land Value Tax/Value Capture: - The site is at www.landcafe.org and the
mail address for comments, etc. LandCafe@yahoogroups.com



5. Children on the Move! Is an important but sadly for now little used
focus group. The address is http://ecoplan.org/children/ch_index.htm and the
email group is reached via : childs-play@yahoogroups.com. (Consider breathing
some life into this worthy group.)



6. Lots Less Cars in Cites/ World Car Free Days: Now we come to the joker,
a forum which now combines two older groups, closely related as you will see the
New Mobility Agenda: World Car Free Days at http://worldcarfreeday.com and the
Lots Less Cars in Cites at http://www.lotslesscars.org
<http://www.lotslesscars.org/> . Their combined forum has the address
LessCars@yahoogroups.com





Okay, what’s the difference in particular between #1 and #6? Well, LLC/WCFD are
single minded and more frankly adversarial in their approach. “Get the cars out”
(or at least a lot of them) either for a day or forever. That’s what brings the
243 people who show up here together and that is what they work with as their
uniting theme. For this reason, when ‘Taxing Bads’ started to narrow in on the
cars in cities dilemma, there it went.



Three quick points inclosing for your organization:



o If you haven’t yet, please do read the Welcome Note
<http://ecoplan.org/general/welcome.htm> that is published right at the top of
every site here. You can go to it direct via
http://ecoplan.org/general/welcome.htm. Please do.



o And if you are getting too much individual emails, please
consider opting for the Daily Digest
<http://ecoplan.org/general/welcome.htm#time> (you’ll see how that works in the
above note or by clicking here <http://ecoplan.org/general/welcome.htm#time> )



o And finally we have more than ten thousand past communications
stored in these sites, a valuable resource if you are trying to get up to speed
on all these international reactions and goings on. How to use it? Well, try
this:



Enhanced Message Search.

With the advanced Message Search functionality, finding a particular message is
not only easier, but much faster. We’ve updated this by integrating powerful
Yahoo! Search algorithms – this results in an accelerated search experience for
you. Message Search now comprehensively screens the entire message archive of a
group, no matter how many messages have been posted.

What’s more, new Message Search includes an “Advanced” search feature. This
feature allows you to drill down on a number of fields to make it easier to find
that lost message. You can use the options on this page to create a very
specific search -- simply refine message search in your group by:

* Date. You can add a specific point on the calendar and have a search
performed before or after that time. Or, search a date range.
* Author. Include the name of the sender and all messages from that name
will be returned. You can also exclude a specific sender name from the search.
* Subject. Add any words from a subject line and it will be returned. You
can also exclude specific words from the subject line too.
* Message Body. Add any words from the body of a message and the relevant
messages will be returned to you in your search results. Again here you can also
exclude specific words from your search.





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