<html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Let me share with you a few quick thoughts on why I think this is an important issue and a good opportunity for us to speak out on it.   <ol start=1 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black'>There is now a Stockholm Vote link on the New Mobility Agenda site. </li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black'>This project has been really very carefully planned by the Swedes, and they have been most thorough in reviewing past experiences, including the pluses, and the many minuses and various elephant traps, etc. So if it were to fail, it would still have to be counted the best prepared road pricing project in the history of man. </li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black'>We know in advance that projects such as this will regularly get beat up by the media and the polls, and since most of us here are believers in the polluter-pays principle (by whatever name), then we should be ready to do our bit to support them in this. </li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black'>I have already contacted people in City Hall up there in the frigid north and told them what we are up to, and that they may find it useful to follow both our little poll results and the expert discussions –pro and con I would imagine -- that surely will appear here. </li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black'>My hope too is that if we can get some media notice of our thinking and vies on all this, that this too might work in the interest of the project. </li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black'>I should say in closing here that I am a strong believer in what some call swarm intelligence and that the citizens of Stockholm will in the final analysis do the right thing—whatever that might be. But this is not to say that I think we should sit on our hands at a time when this good idea needs all the support it can get. </li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black'>BTW: if you want to check out the latest news on this, you can see it under the Stockholm link on the site. Likewise of course the full Google coverage.</li> </ol>   And finally just in case the routine is not sufficiently clear, here it is in two quick steps:   <ol start=1 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black'>To vote, please go to the following web page: <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewMobilityCafe/surveys?id=2093317">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewMobilityCafe/surveys?id=2093317</a> </li> <li class=MsoNormal style='color:black'>Note that there are four items concerning which you are invited to express your views and prognostications: A. B, C, D.  You’ll see when you get there.  It should take you all of two minutes to do your duty.</li> </ol>   Go Stockholm!  Go complexity. Go international teamwork. Go democracy. Go sustainability and social justice.   Thanks!       </div> </body> </html>