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Dutch Move to VMT Tax
Via the Streetsblog network. The Dutch cabinet has agreed to reduce vehicle ownership taxes and impose a new tax based on kilometers driven (complete with GPS tracking – privacy protections are promised). The new tax will be higher during peak driving hours. The government is predicting reductions in both emissions and congestion.
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Google Controls the Value of Your House
This complaint off the Google Transit e-mail list today: The walk score of the homes in Great Neck are artificially low in www.zillow.com which is a home valuation web sitedue to the fact that the MTA or the LIRR trains do not provide them with the transit data. This has depressed the home prices in…
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Cul-de-sacs Kill!
Update: 11/20/09 The slides are now online. Original Post: 11/5/09 I’m attending the Congress for New Urbanism Transportation Summit here in Portland this week (where I’ve had the opportunity to meet several other transportation bloggers!). For me the highlight presentation on opening day on Wednesday was about the safety affects of different street network types.…
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Talking to Conservatives About Rail Transit
Streetfilms has a great video with William Lind, a conservative transit advocate, about how to talk about transit in terms that conservatives will appreciate. I would also note that the late Paul Weyrich, who co-founded the Heritage Foundation, was a trail transit advocate, evening making that point while serving on an infrastructure panel for the…