tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post2357331991125517732..comments2024-02-17T03:22:53.951-05:00Comments on No Dogs or Anglophones: The Pie in the Sky Greening of QuebecEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05699783315783642466noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-4831373886649945032009-12-14T19:28:40.563-05:002009-12-14T19:28:40.563-05:00"Canadian Transit Ridership Breaks Record Aga..."Canadian Transit Ridership Breaks Record Again in 2008"<br /><br />http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2009/17/c7275.html<br /><br />"TORONTO, June 17 /CNW/ - Public transit ridership statistics for 2008<br />showed an increase of 3.5% nationally for another all-time record year with<br />1.82-billion trips, as reported today by the Canadian Urban Transit<br />Association (CUTA). This increase is a 16 percent increase over the five-year<br />period since 2003.<br /> ' "For six consecutive years, Canadian transit systems continue to out do<br />the previous year's record," says CUTA Chair Charles Stolte. "The growth is an<br />increase of 62 million trips, which is more than the entire ridership at a<br />transit system the size of Québec City or Edmonton Transit."<br /> ' "What is most significant about the new figures is that - while ridership<br />grew by 2.6% nationally in the first half of 2008 - it grew by 4.5% in the<br />second half, compared to the same period a year earlier," says CUTA President<br />& CEO Michael Roschlau. That was precisely the time when the economy started<br />to fall into recession and unemployment was going up, while gas prices had<br />fallen back down from the spike in the summer of 2008. Historically, transit<br />ridership has been negatively correlated with these trends ... "toddsschneiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342787083192081323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-10514037100942754852009-12-14T01:37:54.202-05:002009-12-14T01:37:54.202-05:00Please watch "who killed the electric car?&qu...Please watch "who killed the electric car?" and excellent film. Mr. Editor, viable electric cars were on the market in the US and Canada in 1990 and that was long before our current advancements in battery technology. You can do it. We, the people of Portland, OR need you the fine people of Quebec (who I beleive live in a nation less beholden to Mega Corporation interests) to create these cares and sell them to the world. Please.Jason Allenhttp://www.gorustic.comnoreply@blogger.com