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Category Archives: Transportation
What would happen if . . . we raised highway speed limits?
(March 21, 1998) We asked Frank Navin, professor of civil engineering, and Michael Cain, director of research at Saftey by Education (Not Speed Enforcement), to comment Continue reading
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Discussion Group, Every car a cab
(September 21, 1997) Taxi regulations take consumers for a ride while exploiting drivers, clogging our cities, and promoting suburban sprawl. Continue reading
Posted in Automobile, Sprawl, Transportation
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Presentation to Metro Licensing Commission
(June 6, 1997) I am Lawrence Solomon, Executive Director of Consumer Policy Institute, a division of Energy Probe Research Foundation. Our foundation is a federally registered charity with some 40,000 supporters, a quarter of them in Metro. We receive no funds from any interests associated with the taxi industry; the bulk of our funding comes from our supporters and other charitable grant-giving bodies. Continue reading
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PUTTING CUSTOMERS FIRST – Taxicab Reform in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)
(March 31, 1997) Urban transportation is one of the last transport monopolies to confront the customer-driven challenges of a competitive marketplace. Continue reading
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Technology, Policy For Free-Flowing Roads Discussed in Canada
(January 13, 1997) ITS and private road developers have more in common than ETC. Other ITS applications will find their legs in these entrepreneurial initiatives, speaker at conference says. Premium-priced express lanes could be the automated highways of the future. Attendees from worlds of ITS, infrastructure development, finance, government and the environment examine emerging opportunities. Continue reading
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Urban Renaissance Institute 