[Busriders-van] Re: diesel fuels - less PR, more smart choices

[Elizabeth James]

Dale:
   Take all 'diesel smokers' off the street - buses, trucks, pick-ups, VW Jettas, the lot. Fix 'em or dump 'em.

   Replace diesel buses with natural gas buses and/or smaller 'alternative fuel' minibuses.

That's for a start. Then look at LRT for the backbone of the grid and do an efficient job of building everything else to build into that backbone: buses, minibuses, trams, carpooling, bicycle lanes and pedestrian walkways - as it were to flesh out the body of our transportation system. 

And before anyone says we can't afford to do all that, I would ask, "So how can we afford to go subterranean on yet another SkyTrain boondoggle to YVR?

There is so much more I could write but, suffice it to say, that as long as we keep on wasting billions on techno-legacies that cannot do the job, we'll never be able to afford to implement the systems that would do the job!

Cheers,

Liz
 

 Dale Laird <dale at trams.bc.ca> wrote:
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 pwlegood at sfu.ca wrote:

> Debating the merits or demerits of Grade 1 or 2 diesel fuel oils is like
> arguing over Translink's Choice 1 or Choice 2 in 2001. "You either cut off
> your right arm or your left arm," said Councillor Tim Louis.
> 
> Either Grade of diesel fuel oils, according to the American Lung Association
> of California (ALA of California), is a serious public health risk.


So, what does he suggest as an alternative?





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