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Speedbumps and a city's carbon footprint? Permanent link to this item in the archive.

We have a mail list for the back channel at InBerkeley.com, and from time to time a question comes up that requires research. If the question is interesting, my first impulse is: Write It Up!

Now, this is the result of 12-plus years as a blogger. I know my community loves interesting questions, and we have an informal approach on Scripting News that I'd like to port to InBerkeley.com.

So, in that spirit -- here's a question posed by my colleague Mark Haas.

Do Berkeley's infamous speed bumps, traffic diverters and other traffic-related policies, like politically-motivated, too-low speed limits raise the city's carbon footprint?

We just need a qualified author. Anyone know any traffic engineers, or perhaps someone at the UC Berkeley Institute for Transportation Studies? Other experts?

Walter Cronkite's 'Cosmic Disaster' editorial Permanent link to this item in the archive.

In this week's Rebooting The News podcast, I chose Walter Cronkite as our inspiration of the week.

     

Last update: Monday, July 20, 2009 at 1:07 PM Pacific.



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