Happy frickin' new year, r.a.d.!
To LBMHB and a few select other residents of the killfile, may your year
be filled with pain and misery and all those speeders that make you
jealous because your car isn't capable of keeping up and if one of those

Have a look at
http://www.nearmiss-report.org/
This is a scholarly study and the PI would like people who've had a
close one -- not an actual crash; not something you witnessed but

I ran across an extensive listing of every segment of road in the entire
city of Los Angeles that has a speed limit other than 25 MPH, grouped by
speed limit, and a section of 25 MPH roads that don't look the part; there
are nearly 1,000 road segments listed.  In addition, there ...

Interesting information in a greenhouse gas report:
http://dep.state.ct.us/air2/siprac/1999/greeninv.htm
As shown, "Mobile Sources" is, in 1995, twice the contributor to greenhouse
gases that utilities sources are.  Also, as seen in the tabulation, utilities