-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 April 2002 10:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For those still car-bound, I recommend one simple read: "Divorce Your > Car" is a short and very informative read. List-members who are > concerned with urban transportation issues, I urge you to run (or walk, > or bike) to your neighborhood bookseller (if you have one, otherwise ?) > and get the book and read it.
Even if you do have a neighborhood bookseller, try the Minneapolis library! http://mplwebcat.mpls.lib.mn.us/search/t?SEARCH=divorce+your+car If you don't have a real need to buy a book, conserve valuable resources (not to mention your hard-earned money) by sharing them. The book above is currently checked out (and overdue), but you can even reserve books online, so there's no need to waste a trip to the store or library only to find the book is not stocked or on the shelf. And the online catalog at the library makes finding related books really easy too even when the books are not near each other on the shelves. As a parent I've noticed that as soon as you make the decision to walk, bike, or even bus somewhere with your kid(s), you end up actually talking to them more. This is a vast improvement over car rides that consist of cursing at other drivers, while your kid(s) try to distract themselves in the backseat. As a neighbor I've met more people who live near me riding the bus than any other way (and riding the 5 through North Minneapolis every day is very educational in other ways). Don't get me wrong, I find cars to be valuable resources at times-- but I wish we had something like San Francisco's Car Share program here (see www.sfcarshare.org for more information). The years I spent without a car (most of my adult life, in fact) were filled with both good exercise and a general sense of wonder. There's so much to this great city (both good and bad) that just whizzes by when you armor yourself in a 2000 pound killing machine. - -Michael Libby (Cleveland/North Minneapolis) ______Michael_C_Libby__{_x_(at)_ichimunki_(dot)_com_}______ | unsolicited hotmail/yahoo email is deleted due to spam | | my website: http://www.ichimunki.com/ | |____ public key at http://www.ichimunki.com/public.key ____| -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8rEqs4ClW9KMwqnMRAgEHAKCxGXpUgIZ9GxIBVPIXVH4OmLED6QCgrVij lGJ92Zy3EjnTGU7eI5OoHL8= =lWqB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
