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Informed but opinionated commentary and analysis on urban transportation topics from the Secret Worldwide Transit Cabal. Names have been omitted to protect the guilty. Our Mission: Monkeywrench the Anti-Transit Forces
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E-mail: transitcabal -AT- gmail.com (EDIT before sending!) Please report dead links News Sources www.planetizen.com www.lightrail.com www.lightrailnow.org www.funimag.com. Funicular RRs Skepticism/Baloney Detecton Practical Skepticism Site The Fine Art of Baloney Detection (Carl Sagan) www.spinsanity.org Pro-Transit Sites Victoria Transportation Policy Institute Vitriolic Critic of American "Urbanism": www.kunstler.com Protransit Site in Cincinnati Protransit Site in Toronto SeattleMonoJabsAll.pdf Critics / Anti-Transit Sites Prime Transit Disinfo: www.rppi.org Wendell Cox's Website Randal O'Toole: www.ti.org/antiplanner 
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Thursday, June 03, 2004
OTHER TRANSIT BLOGS – 2 Home of More Transit Links Than You can Possibly Check(tm), Unless you have no life other than websurfing Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity: and I'm not so sure about the universe. Einstein From the Cabalmaster: Continuing our review of the competit . . . er, other transit-oriented blogs: Live, from the UK, is . . . “Transport Blog”! www.transportblog.com. . . . subtitled “For a free market in transport . . .” . . . oh, no! Coneheads! (hmmm . . . let’s try that again . . .) . . . oh, no! Libertarians! Much of the writing on this site is by British Libertarian Patrick Crozier: “I believe that the world would be a better place if we privatized schools, hospitals and even the police.” (We assume “even the police” is not limited to Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers, Gordon Summer (aka “Sting”) and others in their profession.) Crozier, who describes his gainful employment as “working in computers,” is also a bit of a grump: “Travel is crap. Whoever said it is better to travel than to arrive needs a good kicking. It takes time, it is tiring, you are subjected to people you don’t know, you are often cramped, it is uncertain, it is dangerous. And that goes for all modern forms of transport be it rail, air or road. It is an essential, if unpleasant feature of modern life so people will always find reasons to complain.” (Sounds like the manifesto of a reclusive couch potato, doesn’t it?”) We find much to criticize (and lampoon) about many aspects of Libertarian philosophy. However, we admit that much of what appears on this blog has a certain intellectual honesty and rigor that we so often find lacking in the rantings of U.S. adherents. (But who in their right mind would describe PETER GORDON’S BLOG as a “Transport-Friendly Blog” ???)
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