On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't really been following this thread particularly, but I've been > aware that it's going on. So when I saw this I thought it might be of > interest: > http://www.environment.ucf.edu/bikepath/27%20Reasons%20to%20Bike.htm > > http://tinyurl.com/6dzrmy > > The killer quote is "The notion that more cars equals more wealth is really > more myth than reality." and it goes on to say "It found that, among cities > in the developed world, regional wealth (as measured by per capita gross > regional product - or GRP) actually goes down as car use go up. In other > words, the more we drive, the poorer we get...." > > There's some very interesting stuff in there. All academically referenced. > > Bob >
I'm pretty sure they're mixing up cause and effect. That result is easily explained by the richest cities being the traditional finance and major transportation centres, all of which are notoriously car unfriendly due to their infrastructure predating the automobile. There's a few exceptions (Cities like Calgary and Houston) butI'd stongly suspect those are also exceptions to that study's findings. The richest cities today in the developed world are for the most part the richest cities of 100 years ago (positions may have changed but not much of the list as a whole). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
