Catatonic_Joe Posted October 15, 2015 Posted October 15, 2015 This is happening next Tuesday. I won't be able to make it, maybe some of you will. Remember to wax (put wax on) your moustache if you have one.
Spez247 Posted October 15, 2015 Posted October 15, 2015 Disruption seems minimal at the moment, for me anyway. Coming from Pretoria commuting is not really an option (would be cool to do 100km a day commute but it may just take a tad long) so I took the train yesterday to check things out for the first day. Today I drove in again. We're in Rivonia road right on the edge of the festival so traffic was fine. Coming and going from the N1 was as usual. I prefer to drive into Sandton as it is just so much faster and cheaper than taking the train. Nice to have the option though.Can't be.... Unless the car is stolen, and it came with a full tank. If you get a month's pass for Gautrain, it will probably work out as the same as your monthly car insurance premium alone.You also have to factor all the daily running costs, the cost of ownership, maintenance, etolls, on a car, and then public transport is really cheap. And you get to read or post on the hub; versus chewing on your steering wheel.Sadly, I live out in the sticks, so getting to the nearest station or getting to work, is much of a muchness.Looking at installing a shower at work. Reckon I can cycle into Sandton in the same amount of time it takes me to drive. Pity about the bike in a bag thing, for Gautrain... A stripped down carriage, would be a Win!
mudda Posted October 15, 2015 Posted October 15, 2015 The Beeld wants to do a multimedia story on commuting and the EcoMobility festival. They want to follow a commuter into Sandton taking video and then interspersing that with interviews. Any volunteers? Yeah .. If they have a gopro ... I can put it on ... I doubt they will be able to follow me by car ... a gopro would work ...
ByronH Posted October 16, 2015 Author Posted October 16, 2015 This is happening next Tuesday. I won't be able to make it, maybe some of you will. Remember to wax (put wax on) your moustache if you have one. 1.pngAh this sounds cool! Pity I'm not actually going into the office on this day...otherwise definitely would have joined
I FLY Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 Pity about the bike in a bag thing, for Gautrain... A stripped down carriage, would be a Win! I had a bike bag made out of black demin. It weighed about 2 kgs and folded up into the size of a small sleeping bag.
NemZA Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 I suggest that someone sponsors bike bags and people can just use them for the trip and leave them at the stations. The guards that travel on the train all day could ensure that the bags are spread out to deal with supply and demand. That would be awesome.
Sven137 Posted October 20, 2015 Posted October 20, 2015 I just want to thank Sandton ecomobility for leaving out the Motorcyclists Most major cities let motorcycles into the buss lanes as they have a much much smaller carbon footprint than cars After repeated phone calls to the lady at ecomobility about Motorbikes which she seems to dislike nothing was done .. thanks for nothing All basically happened was taxis were allowed to speed up the contraflow ..
mudda Posted October 20, 2015 Posted October 20, 2015 For the motorcycle issue....post on twitter to #Joburgecomobility to have your voice heard...
Sven137 Posted October 21, 2015 Posted October 21, 2015 For the motorcycle issue....post on twitter to #Joburgecomobility to have your voice heard... That twitter account is too noisy
mudda Posted October 21, 2015 Posted October 21, 2015 Ok ; check this sign post in the middle of nowhere actually blocking the single track and serving no purpose on william nicole ... is this an epic fail ?
johanpre44 Posted October 21, 2015 Posted October 21, 2015 Ok ; check this sign post in the middle of nowhere actually blocking the single track and serving no purpose on william nicole ... is this an epic fail ? I was wondering what it meant driving past it this week. Wasn't cycling so I kind of never realized it right in the way.
Sven137 Posted October 22, 2015 Posted October 22, 2015 For the motorcycle issue....post on twitter to #Joburgecomobility to have your voice heard... I mean it would be easier to get commuters onto Motorcycles that Bicycles.. .. but the silly ecomobility look at motorcycle like they look at cars.. so blinkered
cat-i Posted October 22, 2015 Posted October 22, 2015 Our company did the metrogaine challenge on electric bikes yesterday. (details here: http://www.ar.co.za/event-calendar/metrogaine-joburg/). Was great fun ... but much more dangerous than expected - mostly because tents were pitched on roads that were closed off for traffic to make way for cyclists and pedestrians. So the cyclists and pedestrians then had to share the other lane with congested traffic flowing both ways. Was the idea to make Sandton aware of alternative traffic?If so, then does it make sense to make it even more dangerous than usual for pedestrians and cyclists? Unless that wasn't the aim?
Sven137 Posted October 26, 2015 Posted October 26, 2015 This was a balls up form the start.. a great opportunity to get motorcycles a part of alternative car culture was lost and the rest of it was a mess.. It seems this was another Pule ICT indaba type event
nonky Posted October 27, 2015 Posted October 27, 2015 Oslo Is Going Car-FreeThe Norwegian city announces plan to ban cars in city center by 2019By Molly Hurford October 21, 2015 http://www.bicycling.com/sites/bicycling.com/files/articles/2015/10/oslo-996.jpg Photo by Moyan Brenn/Flickr Oslo already doesn’t have many cars, and in a few years, they’ll be banned altogether. Oslo, already known as a pleasant city to ride bikes may soon take it's cycling-friendly status to a whole new level. City planners have an intriguing plan to ban all cars in the Norwegian capital by 2019. According to Reuters, the city announced plans to cut nearly 350,000 motorists out of the city’s center, all while increasing public transport and, naturally, bike lanes. The city also announced intentions to fund subsidies for electric bikes in order to reduce auto traffic. It’s all part of a master plan to cut greenhouse gas emission levels of 1990 by half in 2020. Government officials believe that this step will make quality of life better for people in the city while also stimulating the economy for local shops. However, some shop owners are nervous, since 20 percent of the shopping centers in Oslo are in the proposed banned-car area, making them less accessible for larger-scale shopping trips (if you’ve ever tried to move a couch with a bike, you know what they mean). It will be interesting in the next couple years to watch a bustling city shift to being car-free, and hopefully the example set by Oslo will be followed by other cities around the world. Recently, Paris banned cars for a day, but banning cars forever? Let us know what you think—and what kind of cargo bike you’d buy for your travels—in the comments. http://www.bicycling.com/rides/commuting/oslo-going-car-free
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