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Honk! One really does try to be balanced . . .
. . . and not allow oneself to get caught in every political elephant trap and querulous carping of those not in office. But there are times when it is necessary to shine the spotlight on a really...
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Parking realities in the real world: An example from Calcutta
Paul Barter reports on the basic principles of parking and real world contradictions from Calcutta, in an article posted yesterday to his new blog “Reinventing Parking: Understand your community’s...
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The P2P carsharing saga continues: The WhipCar story
WhipCar is a very recent British start-up in the still little known peer-to-peer car owner/rental business. World Streets recently interviewed the group’s founders and managers, Tom Wright and Vinay...
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Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City
The author of this careful and quite extensive book review of the battle for America’s streets is Karthik Rao-Cavale, a graduate student at Rutgers University and an associate editor of our sister...
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From Australia, Jarrett Walker on transit’s role in “sprawl repair”
Urban sprawl is at its best a very mixed bag, as we all know. But worse yet behind its tempting glamorous face it surreptitiously locks in unsustainability in many many ways, ending up with a grossly...
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Autolib’– Paris bets big on new carshare technology
A sustainable transport system is a system of choices – quite the opposite in many ways of the old all-car no-choice model that all too often spends most of its time in taking up scarce space but not...
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Día sin Coches en Bogotá XI : Carlosfelipe Pardo reporting live from the...
This just in from our fearless embedded reporter on the streets of Bogotá Día sin coches XI. Carlos refers in his email to the seminal project which kicked off the basic structure for organizing days...
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BMW enters the one-way carsharing market
Those premium German car companies must know something we don’t! BMW announced it was getting into the one-way carsharing business in Munich, with a fleet of 300 BMW 1-series and Minis, starting in...
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Interview with British Transport Secretary / Attitudes towards the car
From: Simon Field [mailto:s.d.field@talk21.com] The Guardian interviewed UK Transport Minister Philip Hammond last week: you can read Andrew Sparrow’s piece in full here: Throughout the interview you...
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Carsharing is dead, long live . . . car rental?
We have been reading and hearing quite a bit in the French media, and in particular in the context of the city of Paris’s ambitious planned Autolib project, that “carsharing is dead in France”. Which...
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City as a time capsule: Urban highway construction mania still booming in 2011
Transport planning and policy in Lahore Pakistan today, as reported by public policy consultant Hassaan Ghazali, looks like something that was dragged out of a moss-covered time capsule on a hot day: a...
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Ten reasons why I really hate cars (and drivers) in cities
Well the calm of this sunny April day did not last long. Bear hours after publication of what we thought was going to be perfectly harmless op-ed criticizing bicycles and bike readers in cities,...
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Honk! Cars, People and the Planet. It’s a Wonderful World (Have a stupid...
Have you ever given any thought to trying to imagine just how dumb some people think we are? My guess is that the good people of Hyundai have laid out serious money for this little film, without giving...
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The Transportation Majority. Can’t our politicians count?
Public transport? Cycling? Walking? Car pooling? Car sharing? People stuck at home? Elderly? Handicapped? Poor? People unable to get to a job? Or who have to take hours to get there and don’t have a...
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Moving Beyond the Automobile – Exit Parking
The tenth and final video in Streetfilms’ Moving Beyond the Automobile series, looks into the necessary reasons and some of the techniques for parking reform. While the context is New York City, the...
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Honk! This is not a recent experience
Filed under: Cars, Frustratin, traffic, xCar Landscape
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Free Parking Is for Socialists
Down with Free Auto Parking! Up with Free Market Parking! - by Michael Andersen THERE’S NOTHING like watching the degenerates of NW 23rd to make you wonder when liberal America’s war on families is...
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Every day is a great day to take a few cars off the street and think about it.
Mid-year 2011 update at World Car Free Days Here you have a quick update of the materials and sources available on the topic from the World Car Free Days Consortium and several other key sources. More...
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Going down? Newman and Kenworthy on Peak Car Use
This is an important article. It appears simultaneously in the Summer of 2011 edition of our sister publication, the Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice. With a view to ensuring its...
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Toward a new paradigm for transport in cities: Let’s see what Carlos Pardo...
The Stuttgart conference of Cities for Mobility this year represented an important step forward in the construction of a well-defined agenda for new mobility that up until the present time has been...
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