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Drive-thrus not ‘viable’ for strong communities, says alderman
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 | 12:54 PM ET Comments58Recommend26
CBC News
A Calgary alderman says drive-thrus hurt community-building. (CBC)A recent move by Calgary city council to omit drive-thrus from one redevelopment plan should happen more often, says one alderman.
Last week, city council left out drive-thrus when [...]
Mike Ivey: Should Madison ban the drive-through?
Mike Ivey — 6/25/2008 11:37 am
First it was a proposed ban on plastic bags.
Now, a member of the influential Madison Plan Commission wants to ban the restaurant drive-through — or at least restrict the ubiquitous symbol of America’s auto-centric lifestyle.
“Given the concern about all the carbon going [...]
A member of Madison’s Plan Commission says fewer drive-thrus would be better for the environment
By The Wheeler News Service
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Dump the drive-thru? A member of Madison’s Plan Commission says he’d like to ban them to fight global warming.
Eric Sundquist, who was appointed to the panel last month, says it’s only his idea. [...]
Joel Kom, Calgary Herald
Published: Thursday, June 26, 2008
Calgary should consider banning new drive-thrus, two aldermen say — a suggestion that received a chilly reception from some drivers Wednesday.
In a city trying to put pedestrians first and cars last, blocking new drive-thrus from being built makes sense, said Ald. Brian Pincott.
“We’ve got to start designing and [...]
WEDNESDAY, June 25, 2008, 8:56 a.m.
By Don Walker
A member of Madison’s Plan Commission thinks the city ought to consider a ban on restaurant drive-thrus.
Eric Sundquist, appointed to the Plan Commission by Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz last month, says it’s only an idea, a consideration, a proposal that needs more discussion.
But Sundquist, a policy analyst for [...]
David Michaels is a scientist and former government regulator. During the Clinton Administration, he served as Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety and Health, responsible for protecting the health and safety of the workers, neighboring communities, and the environment surrounding the nation’s nuclear weapons factories. He currently directs the Project on Scientific Knowledge and [...]
Unity needed to reduce carbon footprint
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Sarnia Observer
Sir: There are many simple changes we can all make to reduce our carbon footprint and enhance our quality of life. For example, if Canadians avoided idling our cars for just five minutes a day, we would prevent one million tonnes of CO2 from entering the [...]
Executive Summary
This report summarizes new work completed by Toronto Public Health, with
assistance from the Toronto Environment Office, to assess the health impacts
of air pollution from traffic in Toronto. The study has two major
components: a comprehensive review of published scientific studies on the
health effects of vehicle pollution; and, a quantitative assessment of the
burden of illness and [...]
Executive Summary
In 2000, 5,211 persons were killed and about 140,000 were injured in crashes
involving large trucks. The purpose of this study is to explain the unsafe driver
actions and conditions that are more likely in fatal crashes between cars and
large trucks than in fatal crashes between cars and to identify strategies for educating
motorists in safe driving [...]
This study was funded by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety in Washington, DC. Founded in 1947, the AAA Foundation is a not-for-profit, publicly supported
charitable research and education organization dedicated to saving lives by preventing traffic crashes and reducing injuries when crashes occur. Funding for this study
was provided by voluntary contributions from the American Automobile [...]
