05-10-2009, 03:25 PM
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Looking for Car-free infrastructure and living bloggers
Hi EcoModders,
I'm taking over a blog, and looking for some people interested in writing for it. The topic is car-free living and city design and those sorts of issues.
You can check it out at carectomy.com to see the types of things it deals with, but I might want to take a different direction with it.
Anyway, if you're interested send me a PM and we'll talk over all the issues that go with it. Thanks for your interest.
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05-11-2009, 06:52 PM
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Aww, come on. No interest? I promise it'll be a good time.
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05-12-2009, 12:46 AM
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A lot of very interesting plans have existed for many years, but the many people interested are "car-light" or a promoting car sharing or rentals. An ultimate paradise of surrounding railways for food delivery and clusters of buildings without a car in sight would be heavenly, but has remained a dream.
And if I mention my micro-car, or my Aspire; I can practically hear the screams through my computer (traitor!!! hypocrite!!! what are you doing in this group? - and so on).
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05-12-2009, 01:03 AM
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Well, think of it this way:
I own it, but I also run several auto enthusiast sites  |
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05-12-2009, 01:27 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SVOboy
I own it, but I also run several auto enthusiast sites |
hmm.... schizoautophrenic?  Just ran across this car-free tid-bit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/sc...h2YHrvPk/bhSLw |
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05-13-2009, 06:52 PM
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05-14-2009, 12:18 AM
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PM landon (Peakster). He's so car-free he doesn't even post here any more. But he did document his own exit from the clutches of auto-dom.
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05-16-2009, 08:36 PM
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Good idea.
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05-16-2009, 11:31 PM
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I find the idea of car-free cities interesting, but impractical. While I was in college, I went car-light as long as there was no snow on the ground. Now that I'm required to arrive at work looking professional, taking the bike is more hassle than it's worth.
I still make good use of my bike and its saddlebags, but I'm not really car-light anymore. I guess that's why I ecodrive and ecomod. Still, if the site had info about cycling advocacy, and how to encourage public funding of bike friendly roads and paths, I'd read it.
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