Transport – June 25
U.S. Stimulus Puts Bullet Trains on the Fast Track
Don’t Fight The Powerful Trends Now Underway
Pump Prices Driving More to Mass Transit
Transportation
Vision 2050: A Sustainable future for Cheshire West and Chester
This Vision for a Sustainable West Cheshire is intended to guide the Cheshire West and Chester Authority (CW&C) in taking decisions about the future of the area. It is centred on the premise that if we are to achieve a truly sustainable community by 2050 the direction of travel set now must be right.
Transport – June 22
High Speed
UK air passenger numbers slump as recession bites
Lord Adonis sees demise of short flights
Peak oil, supplies & prices – June 20
Why we need the national academy of sciences to study peak oil
Peak flow rates, not peak oil?
The pitfalls of natural gas as the default climate change option
GM preparing for high oil prices: chief executive
ODAC Newsletter – June 19
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
A boat of one’s own
For me a boat easily fit into my collection of human powered vehicles, yet was something new that I hadn’t tried before as an adult. And here it was entering my consciousness as a post-collapse survival tool, the context by which I justified my investments of time and money. But was a boat a survival tool or an expensive new toy? It was not as though I could commute in a boat as I would on a bicycle.
Transport – June 16
Too Stupid To Survive
How Canada fell from leader to laggard in high-speed rail… and why that needs to change
This Woman Is Redefining Public Transportation
Maintaining Our Prosperity
Australia’s new Energy White Paper will be crucial in dealing prudently and effectively with the immense challenges facing Australia as the era of cheap energy and the economic system based upon it comes to an end. We are now in the early stages of an unprecedented economic failure – the terminal decline and probable collapse of global Capitalism.
Transport – June 10
U.S. trains take longer now than 30-60 years ago
Oil’s Ascent To Ground Airlines Again
Environmental assessment of passenger transportation should include infrastructure and supply chains
Transport – June 5
Spain’s High-Speed Rail Offers Guideposts for U.S.
Interview: Nancy Kete on the Future of the American Transportation System
Bike Messenger
South East Queensland’s transport system in the peak oil and climate change era
Cycle Wild wants you to get back to nature… by bike
“A rideshed is basically the distance you can ride on a loaded bike on a summer day. It’s approximately 80-90 miles, but our range is greatly extended by the MAX [light rail in Portland]”
General Motors RIP
Michael Moore: Goodbye, GM
Eulogies for General Motors
P.J. O’Rourke: The End of the Affair