Category Archives: Carfree Lifestyle

Link Love for Transit Lifestyle Blogs

24 June 2008 – 7:47 am

Link love for transit lifestyle blogs. Because this blog gives a lot of press time to future transit expansion and its role in building a better Bay Area, one topic which does not get as much coverage here is transit in the here-and-now — perhaps you might call these transit lifestyle issues. Luckily, other devoted [...]

By Eric | Also posted in Asides, Miscellaneous | Comments (5)

The True Cost of Driving

26 January 2008 – 9:19 am

A post at The Capricious Commuter, a blog that Erik Nelson writes for Inside Bay Area, discusses how although we seem to keep good track of how much it costs to build, improve, and subsidize transit, the mathematics that covers those equivalent costs for automobiles, roads, and parking is far less clearly tabulated. The result [...]

By Eric | Also posted in Air Quality & Emissions, Transit Funding | Comments (0)

Yes on A, No on H: “Transit, Not Traffic” Around the Internet

23 October 2007 – 1:44 pm

Discussion on the “Yes on A, No on H” campaign for Transit, not Traffic, continues around the Internet, and so I’ll continue to post links to some of these sites, for interested readers who might not have run into them:

The Bikescape blog has a posted a podcast about the Transit, Not Traffic campaign, featuring Dave [...]

By Eric | Also posted in Election Coverage, Parking, San Francisco | Comments (5)

Celebrate World Carfree Day

21 September 2007 – 8:21 am

Every year on September 22, cities across the world celebrate World Carfree Day, which, amidst the hustle-bustle that characterizes modern traffic congestion, serves as a cogent reminder that cities are made for people, not automobiles. This year’s holiday promises to be especially large, as the Chinese government is putting out a big effort to make [...]

By Eric | Also posted in Air Quality & Emissions | Comments (2)