[sustran] Re: The American way of traffic: Lessons from life

[Thomas C]

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 the
freeway loop which makes a 1km radius circle around the center.
 within this perimeter, 1/4 of the land is skyscrapers, 3/4 parking lots.
 who said americans dont walk anymore? the last ones to park get to walk
through 1km of parking lot to get to their office, twice a day!
 unless they do use public transit or some shuttle bus service, just to
travel thru parking lots?
  thomas

 On 10/5/05, Eric Britton <eric.britton at ecoplan.org> wrote:
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>  *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 this time.*
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>  Dear Friends,
>
>  I would like to invite you, to encourage you to click to the New Mobility
> Agenda at http://www.newmobility.org this morning to take a look at an
> image which just may help us somehow in mobilizing our thoughts and actions
> in the tough up hill struggle to more sustainable cities and better and
> fairer transportation arrangements.
>
>  You may also have food for thought if you go to the bottom of the second
> short introductory page and have a look at the real time situation on the
> streets there.
>
>  It is our intention to keep this image here for the next week or so and
> invite discussion, of what you see here and the thoughts that it inspires.
>
>  Best/eric britton
>
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