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The Cost of the Car » A Cost Too Great
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The Cost of the Car. The human, environmental, and economic, cost of the car. A Few Short Stories. A Cost Too Great. A Cost Too Great. We all carry on with our lives assuming it will. Happen to us. Sadly, for some of us, that assumption is broken. The fact is that we are more likely to suffer death or serious injury on the road, as a result of a collision, than by any other means. Even disease now takes a back seat. To that end,. The Cost of the Car. Open Channel Publishing Ltd.
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The Cost of the Car » Foot
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The Cost of the Car. The human, environmental, and economic, cost of the car. A Few Short Stories. A Cost Too Great. Walking is by far the most abundant form of exercise. Like cycling, it remains intrinsically safe and entirely under our control. We can leave when we want, with whom we want. And it’s. Whod wanna walk here? Buses form an especially effective deterrent as they excel in both pollution and consumption of space, concentrating in the town centre, where they are least welcome.
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The Cost of the Car » Road
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The Cost of the Car. The human, environmental, and economic, cost of the car. A Few Short Stories. A Cost Too Great. There are certain myths about road transport. First, that it constitutes a. Second is the idea that the car has given us greater. In fact, every trip we make to school, work, shops,. Now takes considerably longer than it did in the age of foot, bike, and rail. Then there is the myth that getting about by car is. My last bus ride in Oxford cost 1.20 for 2 miles at 4 mph. Suffusion theme by ...
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The Cost of the Car » Health and Environment
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The Cost of the Car. The human, environmental, and economic, cost of the car. A Few Short Stories. A Cost Too Great. We are facing a catastrophic decline in our health, with epidemics in obesity, diabetes, and asthma. Of American adults are now obese. Britain is hurrying to catch up, with a quarter of adults and a tragi. C one in seven. Children suffering the same way. Few of these people are likely to see their biblical three score years and ten, never mind match their parents longevity. UK Department f...
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The Cost of the Car » Focal Development
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The Cost of the Car. The human, environmental, and economic, cost of the car. A Few Short Stories. A Cost Too Great. A key feature of sprawl, is the lack of any focus something which can facilitate social interaction, promoting community, and give a place a sense of identity. So any alternative might be termed. Three modes which served our ancestors, before the arrival of the car, were foot, bike, and rail. A journey time consistent with both efficiency and our daily habits is around 20 mins. Our problem...
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The Cost of the Car » Then and Now
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The Cost of the Car. The human, environmental, and economic, cost of the car. A Few Short Stories. A Cost Too Great. Village as it was c. 1955. The village in which I grew up was almost entirely self-contained. Everything lay within a short walk. To venture forth elsewhere, there was a railway station. Sadly, the days had already gone when you could safely ride a bike. Village as it is now. It has also become hideously ugly, noisy, and polluted. The village I once knew is now no more than sprawl.
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WoTUG - CPA 2014
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Communicating Process Architectures 2014. Communicating Process Architectures 2014. The 36th WoTUG conference on concurrent and parallel systems, takes place from Sunday August 24th to Wednesday August 27th 2014 and is hosted by the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. Accommodation and evening Fringe. Sessions will be at St. Anne's College. A few minutes walk from the Department. For information on CPA's areas of interest, please see the Call for Papers. 70 per night). A limited num...
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WoTUG - CPA 2015
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Communicating Process Architectures 2015. Communicating Process Architectures 2015. The 37th. WoTUG conference on concurrent and parallel systems, takes place from Sunday August 23rd. to Wednesday August 26th. 2015 and is hosted by the School of Computing. Accommodation and evening Fringe. Sessions will be at Keynes College. A few minutes walk from the School. For information on CPA's areas of interest, please see the Call for Papers. Following their successful introduction last year ( see here. This mea...
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The Cost of the Car » Road versus Rail
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The Cost of the Car. The human, environmental, and economic, cost of the car. A Few Short Stories. A Cost Too Great. Of using any transport conduit is principally the journey time, whose value usually far exceeds the ticket price. Time, after all. Cost of using a given conduit refers to the cost for each. Then the State invested heavily in new roads, while burdening the railway with heavy regulation (on both sides of the Atlantic). Modes considerably more expensive to use. Open Channel Publishing Ltd.
