Message-ID: <20220920013948.GA359645@telecomdigest.us>
Date: 20 Sep 2022 01:39:48 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: One good thing to come out of the pandemic
One good thing that came out of the pandemic is that more people
picked up cycling. In the first three months of 2021, American
consumer spending on bikes and cycling accessories increased by 34
percent year on year to $8.2 billion. However, the pandemic also saw
more die and suffer injuries while biking. According to the National
Safety Council, 1,260 cyclists were killed in 2020, a 16 percent
increase from 2019.
https://tinyurl.com/3caz3w7e
Message-ID: <20220920012156.GA359456@telecomdigest.us>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 01:21:56 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: A Guide for Policy Makers: On Reducing Road Fatalities
Every day, road traffic accidents claim more than 3,400 lives
worldwide, with a total of 1.25 million deaths annually. The highest
majority of victims are young people aged between 15 and 29 years old
living in low-income countries.
This report intends to support governments and policy makers in redu-
cing road traffic fatalities by providing the necessary tools that
help in the development of a successful road safety strategy. More-
over, this report has been informed by a review of successfully
implemented strategies globally and by evidence-based reports, to
serve as a baseline for governments at a national, regional or local
level to tailor their own strategic plans and answer their unique
challenges.
https://www.pwc.com/m1/en/publications/guide-on-reducing-road-fatalities.html
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Date: 19 Sep 2022 13:54:53 -0400
From: "Michael Trew" <michael.trew@remove-this.att.net>
Subject: Re: Switzerland discontinues printed phone book
On 9/17/2022 12:23, Marco Moock wrote:
> According to this German news article, Switzerland discontinued the
> printed phone book after 142 years.
>
>
https://www.heise.de/news/Schweiz-stellt-gedrucktes-Telefonbuch-nach-142-Jahren-ein-7263958.html
>
> In Germany it is still available, but in the Netherlands they already
> discontinued it in 2018.
That does not surprise me. In a prior career with Frontier
communications, circa 2016 to 2018, there were several metropolitan
areas that discontinued printed white pages. Occasionally, a call would
come in from an elderly customer asking why they hadn't received the
white pages for a year or two. Some of these older folks were
distraught that they had been discontinued... hold onto the old copies!
They are still printed in my local, but the size is shrinking.
Alternatively, in the United States, I don't think that the yellow pages
have been discontinued anywhere. There is still money to be made in
advertising sales and marketing/distributing yellow pages. It seems
that some third party companies even send out their own yellow pages;
I've seen a few different editions in my area. I've been burned by
contractors found on-line, so I still reference the yellow pages first.
A reputable business should be printed in the yellow pages.
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