Disruption of Used Car Market And Transportation Norms
All fossil-fuel vehicles will vanish in 8 years in twin ‘death spiral’ for big oil & big autos, says Stanford study https://t.co/uFcSdLAbFq — Tzeporah Berman (@Tzeporah) May 16, 2017 By…
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Stopping Free Parking from Strangling Society
Urban planners spend the last hundred years modifying cities and policies to cater to the car – and that’s been harming us ever since. We’ve looked at how changing parking…
Still More Hawaiian Sights
The 3rd day of driving, we headed toward the old Dole Plantation. After climbing a hill on the freeway, the Leaf’s battery was a little depleted especially since we started…
The SaskParty’s Deaf Ears & Dumb Cuts
It’s staggering that the province is willing to spend multitudes more money on redundant highway so people can avoid going to Regina, than they are to improve literacy. Don Morgan…
More Sights In Hawaii
After a couple nights at the first place we stayed, we dropped off our keys and picked up the ones for the next place. The timeshare employees moved our bags…
How Safe Will the Model 3 Be?
The Tesla Model 3 could be the safest car on the road — and that’s bad news for every other automaker Matthew DeBord Mar. 23, 2017, 10:42 AM MORGAN STANLEY:…
Improve Transportation by Ending Subsidies for Automobiles
Many drivers think that gas tax (or their car-related taxes in general) more than cover the costs of infrastructure of cars. The reality is quite the opposite. People who don’t…
Public Transit Makes Cities Safer
Obviously public transit is great for getting people around cities and is a very scalable traffic solution. One spinoff of a good public transit system is that the streets get…
Paved Paradise Because Parking Was Already There
July 5th, 2016, after years of a mud pit following the rip-out of the previous playground: Now it looks like this again: Reasoning given: A project of this scale requires…
Bicycling is the Safest Form of Transportation
In Toronto, the car rules the road so much so that the city is fine with non-driver (that’s everyone) deaths, and the city won’t do much to stop drivers from…
On Time and On Budget
There’s a cliche around the City of Regina the last while. Politicians will say a project is “on time and on budget”, but fail to point out that the initial…
Cities Designed for Walking Attract Smart People
The human population of the world is urbanizing, but some places are performing better than others. The key to making a good modern and productive city is to make it…
Drivers Need to Learn to Share
Bicycles are an amazingly fast way to get around cities and countries, as a cyclist I often roll past cars idling in bumper to bumper traffic. The cars (and their…
A Lament For Toyota
My first drivable car was a 1972 Toyota Celica. I was all of sixteen or so when I bought it, and it was near the end of its useful life.…
A Lament For Toyota
My first drivable car was a 1972 Toyota Celica. I was all of sixteen or so when I bought it, and it was near the end of its useful life.…
A Lament For Toyota
My first drivable car was a 1972 Toyota Celica. I was all of sixteen or so when I bought it, and it was near the end of its useful life.…
#OldNews about Alcohol and Planes
A warning against drunk driving. 6 Sept. 1949. Netherlands.@trouw #OldNews pic.twitter.com/yIFzzXo516 — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) March 23, 2016 Roughly, it says: “Alcohol makes lumps. Whoever is not satisfied, can see…
The real costs of fossil fuel-powered vehicles – and the alternatives to them
There is some rising concern, and at times vitriol, about electric car drivers not paying their fair share, because they buy no gas, and therefore do not pay gas…
Wall’s Faulty Logic
“Showing leadership matters, signals matter, examples matter, but the numbers are the numbers,” Wall said. Essentially, Wall appears to be suggesting that because no single action by itself will solve…
Life In Scarborough: Goodbye, Old Car!
So I finally pulled the plug on my '97 Cavalier yesterday afternoon. I feel OK about it. I'd put a new engine in last February and hoped this would squeeze…