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articles -misc. articles by MTS (those not categorized below)
- Automated Guideway Transit (AGT) (3695 bytes)
- Diesel rail cars and low-floor light rail: Dürener Kreisbahn (124178 bytes)
- Government encourages automobile use (5445 bytes)
- Hidden inefficiency of the internal combustion engineen (3077 bytes)
- Modern Transit Society articles and position papers (7893 bytes)
- Motorization of American Cities, book review (4371 bytes)
- light transit paper (20093 bytes)
- Oil refineries consume lots of water (3067 bytes)
- Sound walls reflects freeway roar onto other neighborhoods (2806 bytes)
bicycles
- Decrease your chance of an accident in city traffic (4922 bytes)
- Bicyclist/pedestrian rights fighter given award (12134 bytes)
- Bicyclists subsidize motorists (3014 bytes)
- Why dogs bark at, attack bicyclists (3565 bytes)
- My first expressway letter (6548 bytes)
- How to eliminate most flat tires on road bicycles (1997 bytes)
- Avoid flip-over when mountain biking (10499 bytes)
- List of bicycle articles by Akos Szoboszlay (6413 bytes)
- Shall bicyclists obey the Vehicle Code? Not always. (5187 bytes)
- Bicyclists need to reverse being kicked off Rt. 87 (6733 bytes)
- How to eliminate illegal discriminatory signs (6820 bytes)
- Why the conflict with traffic engineers? (7347 bytes)
pedestrians on Capitol Expressway in San Jose, CA (also see "expressways" below)
- Sidewalks “prohibited !” (139706 bytes)
- The struggle to allow pedestrians, transit access on "expressways" (50763 bytes)
- Struggle to allow pedestrians on Capitol "Expressway" (7504 bytes)
cashout -equalizing the parking subsidy
- Employee Parking Cashout (6696 bytes)
- Results of 10 studies on Employee Parking Cashout (4314 bytes)
- Results of 10 studies on Employee Parking Cashout (8823 bytes)
- Index of articles on cashout and parking (3429 bytes)
- Ending parking subsidies --> dramatic transit increase (17713 bytes)
- Parking subsidy elimination will eliviate need for fare increase. (8093 bytes)
MTS contacts for Sacramento chapter (3117 bytes)
MTS contacts in the South Bay (5890 bytes)
MTS contacts for Sacramento chapter (3012 bytes)
MTS contacts (3274 bytes)
Conflict of Transportation Competitors
- Key System Annual Report of 1946 (126494 bytes)
- General Motors propaganda: newspaper ad for destroying streetcars (136960 bytes)
- Enlargement of articles: Struggle to stop streetcar destructions (443279 bytes)
- Preliminary Studies for an Additonal Bridge Across San Francisco Bay (215294 bytes)
- Email from Mayor Bukowski of Emeryville, CA (19311 bytes)
- Cross section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, 1947 (175243 bytes)
- Bicycles on "Expressways" (19002 bytes)
- Traffic Engineers vs. Transit Patrons (189932 bytes)
- The Fight to Save the Streetcars and Electric Trains (37713 bytes)
- The Desired Result: Drive People to Drive (21399 bytes)
- General Motors' Destruction of California Transit Systems (32079 bytes)
- Recent Conflicts of Competitors in Santa Clara County (26234 bytes)
- Is Safety One of the Goals for Traffic Engineers? (14452 bytes)
- Despite Unanimous San Jose City Council Vote, the Struggle was Not Over (15587 bytes)
- Epilogue, Conclusion and Challenge (16338 bytes)
- California PUC Application No. 30461 (40428 bytes)
- Conflict of Transportation Competitors (85252 bytes)
- More about Bicycles on Expressways (19124 bytes)
- San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge ballot measures (11691 bytes)
excerpts
- Inceasing roadway capacity often actually increases congestion (5218 bytes)
- Induced traffic description (7009 bytes)
expressways: the struggle to allow pedestrians on these arterials
- Example of Detours: Capitol Expressway (161162 bytes)
- Pedestrians on State Hwy. 99, a comparison (5647 bytes)
- Expressways, links page (2383 bytes)
- Legality of Pedestrian Prohibitions, Legal Opinion (168334 bytes)
- Liability of City or County, Legal Opinion Liability of City or County Liability of City or County Liability of City or County (339564 bytes)
- Montague Expressway: inexpensive actions for pedestrian safety (4526 bytes)
- Background and Personal Experience (10218 bytes)
- Dangerous Policies of Santa Clara County highway engineers (2765 bytes)
- Rebuttal to the County highway engineers (13310 bytes)
- Pedestrians along Expressways / Repeal San Jose Ordinance #11.32.070 (137246 bytes)
- Pedestrians forced to walk in traffic lane for 17 years! (36579 bytes)
- Attack on Pedestrians! Abridged rebuttal. (22257 bytes)
- San Jose Municipal Code 11.32.070 (3785 bytes)
- Request to Repeal San Jose Ordinance 11.32.070 (5337 bytes)
Free Market for Transporation Plan
- Caltrans, the California Department of Transportation (2885 bytes)
- Contents: the Free Market for Transportation Plan (12527 bytes)
- Executive Summary, Free Market for Transportation Plan (22491 bytes)
- Alleviating concerns of potential opposition (15974 bytes)
- Sources of roadway financing (15402 bytes)
- Economic principles (15380 bytes)
- An economic analogy; A way to increase roadway capacity (52477 bytes)
- Modern Fare Collection (22768 bytes)
- Protecting neighborhoods by using road fares (18846 bytes)
- Other ways that people benefit from the Plan (50874 bytes)
- What is the alternative to developer fees for roads? (13965 bytes)
- Huge city subsidies for autos, trucks (16159 bytes)
- Charge pollution fees ... to those who pollute (12234 bytes)
- What should road fares and pollution fees pay for? (14335 bytes)
- Transportation modeling -a primer (22563 bytes)
- How to equalize the parking subsidy (16341 bytes)
- Free Market Transportation Ordinance (24000 bytes)
- Traditional vs. Hierarchical street patterns (31111 bytes)
- How does the traditional system effect automobile traffic flow, specifically, capacity and travel time? (31286 bytes)
- Free Market for Transportation Plan (13770 bytes)
- Free Market for Transportation Plan, print version (228836 bytes)
MTS Membership Form (3673 bytes)
GUIDEWAY - newsletter of MTS
- GUIDEWAY, Spring 2000, First of two web pages (13691 bytes)
- GUIDEWAY, Spring 2000, Second of two web pages (15564 bytes)
- GUIDEWAY, Summer 2000, First of two web pages (35271 bytes)
- GUIDEWAY, Summer 2000, Second of two web pages (49200 bytes)
- GUIDEWAY, Fall 2000, First of two web pages (9045 bytes)
- GUIDEWAY, Fall 2000, Second of two web pages (11559 bytes)
- GUIDEWAY, Winter 2001, First of two web pages (15460 bytes)
- GUIDEWAY, Winter 2001, Second of two web pages (65157 bytes)
- MTS newsletter GUIDEWAY, CONTENTS (5706 bytes)
- GUIDEWAY (3063 bytes)
HOV -carpool lanes (index)
- San Fracisco Bay Area commuters, data from 1980, 1990 Census (75469 bytes)
- Letter to BAAQMD by MTS re HOV lanes, 5/15/99 (4723 bytes)
- casual carpooling (6298 bytes)
- Disinformation on carpooling by traffic engineers (9431 bytes)
- Carpool lane facts, San Franscisco Bay Area (19771 bytes)
- Reallocate HOV lane construction funds for transit (4003 bytes)
- HOV lanes on San Tomas and 237 caused a huge solodriver increase. (11262 bytes)
- Index of articles on HOV (carpool) lanes (2828 bytes)
- San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (148767 bytes)
- MTS rebuts RIDES claims (9487 bytes)
Modern Transit Society home page (23110 bytes)
letters: see index in Letters from and to the Modern Transit Society (7421 bytes)
Bibliography for induced traffic (7165 bytes)
Links to other transit advocacy and info in California and national (11254 bytes)
Moving People, our former newsletter
- 96nov
  - Los Angeles rail transit under siege by critics (9887 bytes)
  - Muni light rail to China Town proposed (5296 bytes)
  - Meet the Mittelthurgaubahn -- Swiss Railway (110250 bytes)
  - San Francisco Muni needs Substance not Frills (3922 bytes)
  - Short Railroad Subjects (22751 bytes)
  - Seattle's Surprise Rail Victory (19941 bytes)
- 97may
  - Metrolink Defends Status Quo (7581 bytes)
  - Room for Growth on Bay Bridge (20348 bytes)
  - Rail Shorts (6080 bytes)
  - Putting San Jose's Vasona Line on a Fast Track (98966 bytes)
- Moving People, newsletter of the Modern Transit Society (29114 bytes)
mtsmeetings
- Modern Transit Society Annual Meetings (2587 bytes)
- Modern Transit Society Annual Meeting, Sept 25, 2001 (20830 bytes)
Links to other transit advocacy and info in California and national (3490 bytes)
sales-tax
- Vote Results, 2000 (3057 bytes)
- Alameda County Measure B, 2000. Vote NO! (42691 bytes)
- Santa Clara Co Measure A, 2000: Vote YES! (6163 bytes)
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
- MTS response to Caltrans' rejection of allowing trains (66252 bytes)
- Letter from Caltrans to MTS regarding San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (114323 bytes)
- Letter from MTS to Governor Gray Davis, 3/17/99 (3029 bytes)
- San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (151405 bytes)
- Letter from MTS to Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) (3628 bytes)
- Letter from MTS to Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) (89647 bytes)
- Rail study for SFOBB is unacceptable. (7255 bytes)
- San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (125087 bytes)
- Rail study for SFOBB is unacceptable. (12960 bytes)
- Email from Mayor Willie Brown of San Francisco (3108 bytes)
solution
- California Local Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law (322974 bytes)
Solution for traffic congestion (14636 bytes)
How to fight spam (11428 bytes)
Letter from Modern Transit Society (5789 bytes)
Sunnyvale campaign for walkers safety and rights (has index of letters). (17149 bytes)
bicycle touring (also see "bicycles" above)
- Bicycles on airlines (2804 bytes)
- Cruising in Baja (6120 bytes)
- List of trips; Car camping trips, day mountain bike rides (1971 bytes)
- Costa Rica bicycle tour (8599 bytes)
- Equipment needed for third world touring (4112 bytes)
- High tech bicycle touring (8876 bytes)
- Bicycling the Himalaya (6871 bytes)
- Hungary and Turkey bicycle tour (7754 bytes)
- Third world bicycle touring (4507 bytes)
- tools for third world touring (4067 bytes)
- Future trips for Akos. Want to go? (4511 bytes)