[RTC List] Changing Tides Family Services

[John Abela]

Hey Aaron,

Nice job on the Google-Local integration. Always nice to see that kind
of thing take place.

I got a chuckle out of this one...

http://www.google.com/transit?ie=UTF8&hl=en&saddr=McKinleyville,+CA&daddr=252+Loleta+Drive,+Loleta+CA+95551&f=d&sampleq=1

I never knew our local buses could walk ...err... drive on water :)

btw, I might have reset your your password in the /admin/ section of
the www.transitinfosolutions.com website... you really should try to
secure that up a bit ;)

As for the GreenWheels... how about we put that $62 million into
getting a by-pass around Eureka so that this Christmas it doesn't take
me 2+ hours to go from Wendy's to Marie Callenders!! It was great,
last year I got lunch at Wendys and by the time I got 1 mile down the
road to Marie Callenders, it was dinner time!!  (ok, sorry to take
your thread off-topic :-p ) Also, I think the local rail road guys
might not like you putting a bike-train down the middle of their rail
road tracks... that could make for some... well, some interesting
events. ..."kersplat" comes to mind...

Anyway Aaron, nice job and hope to see you and others continue to push
forward technology here in Humboldt County.

John B. Abela


On 9/17/07, Aaron Antrim <aaron at arcatacommunity.org> wrote:
>
> RTC list subscribers:
>
> Allow me to introduce myself as an Arcata-based web-developer.  I just
> formed a company called Transit Information Solutions
> (www.transitinfosolutions.com) which just brought Google Transit to Humboldt
> County (www.hta.org) and is now attracting many new out-of-the-area clients.
>  I am also the outreach director for Green Wheels NEC.
>
> Green Wheels is leading a coalition of groups who are calling for
> alternatives to the proposed Eureka-Arcata 101 Corridor Project.  The
> proposed project is bicycle, pedestrian, and transit unfriendly.  From my
> perspective as a young, enterprising information-technology consultant, the
> approach the project takes is one that neglects to consider an appropriate
> strategy for Humboldt County's economic, technological, and cultural
> development in the current era.  It does not make appropriate steps to offer
> any of the quality of life information entrepreneurs are attracted by, such
> as a multi-use trail.  Instead, it makes massive ($60 million+) investments
> in highway infrastructure on a scale which I do not believe are necessary or
> have an appropriate place in an information economy.  Imagine what we could
> do by investing $62 million in projects that would improve quality of life
> for information entrepreneurs, pursued in a coordinated strategy with
> broadband investments.
>
> I ask that the Redwood Technology Consortium consider letting me add their
> name as a signer on this letter (attached for you to read).
>
> You can learn more about the basis of our criticisms of the corridor project
> here:
> http://www.green-wheels.org/node/212
>
> More here: http://www.green-wheels.org/taxonomy/term/77
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Aaron Antrim
> aaron.antrim at green-wheels.org
> 707.633.4464
> NEC Green Wheels
> www.green-wheels.org
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