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Nice photos of BRT systems in Brazil. In SD center exclusive bus lanes would be required on existing roads.
http://www.ptv-vision.jp/Seminar/2011/PDF_Download/S1_BRT%20Systems%20in%20Brazil.pdf

Substantial progress is being made on eco towns / cities all over the World. Countries like DR are behind and just invest billions on unnecessary power stations, motorways in cities and importing unnecessary cars that should be taxed at a far higher rate as Singapore, HK etc.

pi2


Hello "pi2"..... If they tax the cars any higher those cost will be passed onto the riders. Many could bearly afford to take a taxi ride. Ride the taxi or eat... Which will you pick?

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Nice photos of BRT systems in Brazil. In SD center exclusive bus lanes would be required on existing roads.
http://www.ptv-vision.jp/Seminar/2011/PDF_Download/S1_BRT%20Systems%20in%20Brazil.pdf

Substantial progress is being made on eco towns / cities all over the World. Countries like DR are behind and just invest billions on unnecessary power stations, motorways in cities and importing unnecessary cars that should be taxed at a far higher rate as Singapore, HK etc.

pi2


Hello "pi2"..... If they tax the cars any higher those cost will be passed onto the riders. Many could bearly afford to take a taxi ride. Ride the taxi or eat... Which will you pick?
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None: ride a bicycle, catch a bus. When I attended school the school was 2.7 miles away. Government policies at the time fortunately forced cars off the road in the UK. The school via charities and the government paid for new tyres etc. once a term - a fixed amount depending on distance. There were cycle racks at the school. Of course teachers who showed up in cars were resented and most came by bike

Advanced nations such as Holland, UK have similar bus and cycle systems and in Dutch and UK cities cycle hire is easy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridgeshire_Guided_Busway

S.

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Nice photos of BRT systems in Brazil. In SD center exclusive bus lanes would be required on existing roads.
http://www.ptv-vision.jp/Seminar/2011/PDF_Download/S1_BRT%20Systems%20in%20Brazil.pdf

Substantial progress is being made on eco towns / cities all over the World. Countries like DR are behind and just invest billions on unnecessary power stations, motorways in cities and importing unnecessary cars that should be taxed at a far higher rate as Singapore, HK etc.

pi2


Hello "pi2"..... If they tax the cars any higher those cost will be passed onto the riders. Many could bearly afford to take a taxi ride. Ride the taxi or eat... Which will you pick?
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None: ride a bicycle, catch a bus. When I attended school the school was 2.7 miles away. Government policies at the time fortunately forced cars off the road in the UK. The school via charities and the government paid for new tyres etc. once a term - a fixed amount depending on distance. There were cycle racks at the school. Of course teachers who showed up in cars were resented and most came by bike

Advanced nations such as Holland, UK have similar bus and cycle systems and in Dutch and UK cities cycle hire is easy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridgeshire_Guided_Busway

S.

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If you bicycle everywhere, where will you shower? I will stick to the cold AC interior of a vehicle and bicycle only for sport

[QUOTE=xwill7]
[QUOTE=abc200]
[QUOTE=xwill7]
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Nice photos of BRT systems in Brazil. In SD center exclusive bus lanes would be required on existing roads.
http://www.ptv-vision.jp/Seminar/2011/PDF_Download/S1_BRT%20Systems%20in%20Brazil.pdf

Substantial progress is being made on eco towns / cities all over the World. Countries like DR are behind and just invest billions on unnecessary power stations, motorways in cities and importing unnecessary cars that should be taxed at a far higher rate as Singapore, HK etc.

pi2


Hello "pi2"..... If they tax the cars any higher those cost will be passed onto the riders. Many could bearly afford to take a taxi ride. Ride the taxi or eat... Which will you pick?
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None: ride a bicycle, catch a bus. When I attended school the school was 2.7 miles away. Government policies at the time fortunately forced cars off the road in the UK. The school via charities and the government paid for new tyres etc. once a term - a fixed amount depending on distance. There were cycle racks at the school. Of course teachers who showed up in cars were resented and most came by bike

Advanced nations such as Holland, UK have similar bus and cycle systems and in Dutch and UK cities cycle hire is easy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridgeshire_Guided_Busway

S.

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If you bicycle everywhere, where will you shower? I will stick to the cold AC interior of a vehicle and bicycle only for sport
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When I worked in the UK many organizations had showers: in Germany one company had a swimming pool as well. Of course organizations benefit from fit staff


http://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/stories/2009/05/18/daily24.html

Of course some people like to be cabbage patch kid driver....

S.

New York's underground park of the future

Check out the cool idea that just might happen in the near future in The Lower East Side.




1 May 2012 Last updated at 22:42 ET Help

For New Yorkers frustrated by the lack of space the tradition has long been to build upwards - but the city renowned for its skyscrapers is now looking to exploit spaces underground too.

The Low Line is a proposed subterranean park the size of a football pitch that would be created on the site of a former trolley terminal in Manhattan's Lower East Side.

The century-old site has not been in use since 1948, yet its 18ft-high (5.5m) ceilings, rail tracks and cobblestones have been preserved largely intact.

The name Low Line echoes the hugely popular High Line. That public park was created on disused sections of a raised railway track that snakes through downtown Manhattan. It attracts millions of visitors each year.

The team behind the idea, Dan Barasch and James Ramsey, would love to give residents an alternative place to escape the city's crowded streets. But how to get trees and grass to grow so far underground?

A system of solar panels and fibre optics would be used to bring light from above ground down to the terminal. They insist the technology has the potential to support photosynthesis.

The park plan is in its early stages. A Kickstarter campaign this month raised the first $150,000. Mr Barasch admits the final cost is likely to be "many millions of dollars" and take several years.

Produced by Anna Bressanin; camera by Ilya Shnitser

Sounds like a waste of money. A pontoon floating in the water could create space at a fraction of the cost.

S.

one more reason to love the city. great idea and marvelous proposed usage of space.

There are too many malls in the US already! Private finance often means pension funds - ordinary folk.

Its a zero or negative sum game - some loose money, some gain - sure fire the financial bods in Wall sSt. etc. running the show gain money from commissions moving money around!

“Dark Stores” is the title of a horror tale created by photographer Brian Ulrich in the wake of the financial crisis. It’s the last part of his “Copia” project, a serious albeit somewhat poetic examination of consumerism, which he began after 9/11. Back then Americans were being encouraged to help boost the economy by shopping in malls everywhere. A dubious equation of consumerism with patriotism, as Ulrich felt. He went out to capture the lackluster world of malls and retail stores – all in all he shot some fantastic photographic series.

In “Dark Stores” he concludes “Copia” by documenting empty and abandoned malls – at night, when an already eerie silence becomes even more spooky. Looking at those pictures I’d rather not be left alone in these dark places. You can almost hear faint voices and steps of people trailing off into the past, when these places where still alive.

http://www.americanbackroom.com/lang/en/2009/09/verlassene-einkaufszentren-im-nordosten-amerikasabandoned-malls-in-northeastern-usa/

Click on the pictures to show more........

http://notifbutwhen.com/projects/copia/dark-stores/#i14