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The Future of Our Space Program and its Possible Effect on Vanpooling
October 7th, 2009 0 CommentsBy George Gaudy
VPSI’s Brevard County Manager
On August 26 I wrote a very pessimistic message regarding my feelings of the future of our Space Program and its possible effect on vanpooling in Brevard and other areas of the country that support NASA. During the month of September it seems that folks have finally reached a similar conclusion and are springing into action. I believe this is important enough for all of us for me to keep you further advised of what is going on, at least in Brevard County and Florida. Accordingly I am including a recent Florida Today editorial and a Brevard County Board of County Commissioners News Release. You might be interested in looking at SaveSpace.US to see the campaign that is now being mounted, and even send one of the 500,000 letters to President Obama.
Taking Commuting Into Our Own Hands
April 21st, 2009 2 Comments
Noel P. Ciminello is currently the Application Development Manager for the Funds Transfer Application at State Street Corporation. He has been vanpooling with VPSI since November 2008, when he formed the first ever “pool” of vans seen in Massachusetts.
Hello All, today I digress to give you a little background regarding our arrival to the vanpool scene. I take you back to September of 2008! We are all commuters on this big red commuting machine – sharing the commute in essentially solitary confinement. No one really knowing anyone else. It’s a sheltered, claustrophobic sense of being, robotically commuting to work.
One day, this big red machine decided it could wring out an even greater profit from its constituents. And why not? Gas was going through the roof and the big red machines were bursting at the seams with an ever greater number of commuters attempting to board. They even stated it themselves, boasting, “Let’s charge more! How else are they going to get to Boston? We have a monopoly!” Read More
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