Warning: The new introductory page contains a very large image file (almost 1 mo.) so if you do not have a high speed link you will probably not want to try it...
Eric Britton
eric.britton@...
Oct 5, 2005 7:55 am
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nice picture! i looked it up on google earth and you know what the funniest thing is? this is _downtown_ houston! all of what we see on the picture is within...
Thomas C
thomas.cr@...
Oct 5, 2005 9:47 am
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Dear SUSTRAN readers, I have written a paper about future oil prices. If you are interested, you can ask me to send it to you, since the list does not accept...
Francis Papon
papon@...
Oct 6, 2005 6:34 am
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Very telling photograph. What a desolate appearance, compared with any European city. Post-automobile civic geography is terrible. Sincerely, J G Krishnayya ...
Prof J G Krishnayya
sri@...
Oct 6, 2005 6:55 am
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Surely for most of the world other sources of energy and fuels for vehicles would kick in long before we reached such a high base price (before taxes).... ... ...
Lee Schipper
schipper@...
Oct 6, 2005 10:58 am
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Yes indeed, hideous. But, not to be confusing causation and correlation, can it be coincidence that every major North American city you can name with a ...
mpotter
mpotter@...
Oct 6, 2005 11:56 am
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Cher Mr Francis PAPON, Je essai de vous encrire en francais, meme si mon clavier reste toujours en version anglaise. Il me force donc de comettre des erreurs...
hitapriya suprayitno
suprayitno_hita@...
Oct 6, 2005 11:31 pm
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Dear Mr. Francis Papon, I'm very interest with your paper about future oil prices, and I'll more than happy if you send it to me. Based on your explanation, I...
Andi Rahmah
andi_rahmah@...
Oct 7, 2005 8:45 am
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Dear Friends, Estimados amigos, etc. etc, To get out our message we have to learn to get away from our various comfortable towers, ivory, print and otherwise....
Eric Britton
eric.britton@...
Oct 7, 2005 12:58 pm
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I will be out of the office starting Thu 09/29/2005 and will not return until Wed 10/12/2005. I am traveling -- I read email from time to time. For urgent...
chuizenga@...
Oct 7, 2005 4:01 pm
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Dear Friends, I would like to share the following series of exchanges with you on a topic and an activity that I believe to be of great importance to us - both...
Eric Britton
eric.britton@...
Oct 10, 2005 12:59 am
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Here's a review of my book in Technology and Culture, which most of you on this list probably would not otherwise see! Best, --Jonathan Technology and culture,...
Jonathan E. D. Richmond
richmond@...
Oct 10, 2005 1:13 am
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Thanks, this looks very interesting. It's always fun to fly in to LA and see if you can spot the Blue Line train (I usually only see one)! I am just old enough...
Lee Schipper
schipper@...
Oct 10, 2005 1:29 am
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All good questions. The point is that while GM did indeed want to get rid of rail lines, the demise of rail was not the result of any such conspiracy but a...
Jonathan E. D. Richmond
richmond@...
Oct 10, 2005 1:38 am
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And the problems light rail had stemmed from the 1920s, when their fares were too low and they started to fold. People begrudgingly got cars -- so said a UC...
Lee Schipper
schipper@...
Oct 10, 2005 1:46 am
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I am writing a paper on Bangkok right now... Of course, there is no reason why public transport should cover its costs. It can be a worthwhile public...
Jonathan E. D. Richmond
richmond@...
Oct 10, 2005 2:03 am
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These issues can be viewed from a variety of perspectives. Rail service declined for a variety of reasons. I agree with Dr. Richmond that the GM/Standard...
Todd Alexander Litman
litman@...
Oct 10, 2005 4:04 pm
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Dear Jonathan, I very much like that review -- and more than that all the thinking that lies behind it in your book. Based on my not entirely inconsequential ...
Eric Britton
eric.britton@...
Oct 11, 2005 2:54 pm
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Dear Friends, We seem to be making progress here. So let me see if I can build on Margaret's latest (see below) and a bit of work that I have done over the...
Eric Britton
eric.britton@...
Oct 11, 2005 3:20 pm
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As you can expect from me, I agree with Todd. But I just want to add a couple comments specfic to LA, not rail transit in general. 1) The GM et. al. conspiracy...
Eric Bruun
ericbruun@...
Oct 11, 2005 7:44 pm
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Interestingly, the red "rapid bus" runs all the way from Santa Monica to whitter on Wilshire (where I grew up) then on other streets east of so=called...
Lee Schipper
schipper@...
Oct 11, 2005 8:28 pm
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its very true in the US, fo rthe last 15 years. Tha'ts why I said US below. it is NOT true in any other country, even though cars are roughly 25-33% less fuel...
Lee Schipper
SCHIPPER@...
Oct 20, 2005 8:46 pm
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its very true in the US, fo rthe last 15 years. Tha'ts why I said US below. it is NOT true in any other country, even though cars are roughly 25-33% less fuel...
Lee Schipper
SCHIPPER@...
Oct 20, 2005 8:46 pm
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Lee Using average data for the US is almost meaningless. It is a gross overgeneralization. In fact, lots of "city buses" are quite crowded. Many genuine city...
Eric Bruun
ericbruun@...
Oct 20, 2005 9:24 pm
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I have a different view. I think the compariosn shows the folly of the US subsidizing transit but NOt trying to control sprawl, having cheap fuel and vehicles...
Lee Schipper
SCHIPPER@...
Oct 20, 2005 9:36 pm
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I will be out of the office starting 18/10/2005 and will not return until 24/10/2005. Sorry, I will be unable to respond to your message until I return. ...
Lew Fulton
Lew.Fulton@...
Oct 21, 2005 1:01 am
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Lee Of course I agree that something is wrong. I don't disagree with your statement about the folly of not controlling sprawl. And you are certainly preaching...
Eric Bruun
ericbruun@...
Oct 21, 2005 1:27 am
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Hi, I would just like to give some input from a Malaysian perspective. I have been working on a public transport information system here and using public...
Su-Lin Chee
sulin@...
Oct 21, 2005 4:14 am
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Lee, I can't let the comment about cutting transit workers wages stand. Having not worked on the US for many years, at this Urban Age conference, I was struck...
Walter Hook
whook@...
Oct 21, 2005 1:41 pm
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I don't want to use more than my fair share of time, but I will add two points since this is in my consulting domain: 1) Keeping high wages too high to make...
