Tag: Slow Transportation

• Slow Transportation (part 4)

  4. Tagline and Logo I’m in search of a tag line for Slow Transportation. Something on the order of: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” ― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto “Short trips. Not too many. Mostly walking and bicycling.” Well, it’s a start. It also needs a logo, like the…

  Dan Allison

  2016/12/16

  livability

  logo, Slow Food, Slow Money, Slow Transportation, StreetsBlog, Strong Towns, tagline

• Slow Transportation (part 3)

  3. What Slow Transportation Isn’t It isn’t flying in airplanes. It isn’t driving over 25 mph except on roadways designed for higher speeds that connect places rather than go through places. For example, the highway to the mountains. But not the stroad arterial in your neighborhood, and never a residential street. In fact, 20 mph…

  Dan Allison

  2016/12/15

  livability, transportation

  grocery shopping, Slow Transportation, Twenty is Plenty

• Slow Transportation (part 2)

  

  2. Slow Transportation As a Solution I have said for years that the two most important things we do in our lives are what we eat and how we get around (hence the name of this blog, Getting Around Sacramento). The what we eat ground (soil?) is well covered by Slow Food and all the…

  Dan Allison

  2016/12/14

  transportation

  #NoNetPavement, #NoNewRoads, how we get around, mode share, Slow Transportation, trip reduction, what we eat

• Slow Transportation (part 1)

  Recently I was emailing a friend about a Slow Food gathering, and facetiously used the term “slow transportation” for getting there by train rather than flying. But the more I thought about it, the more the term resonated with what I believe in and what I work on. I have not heard, so far as…

  Dan Allison

  2016/12/13

  livability, transportation

  accessibility, afforability, externalities, greenhouse gas emissions, oil wars, peak car, Slow Transportation, traffic violence, wealth