Not long before you lot are in the minority too though. I can smell the fear in the tone of the posts from the petrolhead clique. Kidding themselves it's all a bit of a laugh. Thread's already at 13 pages - panic is setting in.
What an absolute load of nonsense. As if people consider the negative aspects of everything they or others do. If that were the case cigarettes and alcohol would have been banned decades ago and Class A narcs wouldn't exist. All things which kill and maim exponentially more people than private motoring but are engaged in with gusto by your average U75 cycle wally.
That's because for the last 10 it's mainly been you lot polishing each others helmets!
Good luck with that.
It's allowed as long as you wear a stripey jumper and have SWAG written on the bag in six inch letters.
This... doesn’t even work. The example city still lets people use cars. Yet very few do, because the alternative for most journeys is easier, more efficient and better for all involved.
Are you allergic to water? Must make life terribly difficult.
From what I have seen on this thread the pollution is the main objection to cars. Electric, hydrogen or hybrid would sort that wouldn't it?
How on earth are no helmets a good thing? You can still come off a bike even with no cars on the road.
Walking's ace. I'm averaging 18,457 steps a day!
I thought you were looking sexier. You sure you wanna chuck all that away?
An out and out ban isn't feasible or desirable I agree. But a scaling down of car use and creating car free parts of cities is. Perhaps a nice start would be creating car free routes to schools for those who are able to walk or cycle. When I lived in Holland as a kid it was a joy to have car free routes to cycle, walk or sled to school. Safer, cleaner and healthier.
Was that measured with one of those things you put round your wrist? Cause if so I'm not sure all that movement was 'walking'.
Apple are trialing a new model of these but SpookyFrank and Teuchter keep wearing them out.
Yes, this seems right, plus I'd add looking at making working from home the default and a company maybe having to prove it couldn't set you up there for most work (maybe a one day a week in the office for the social side etc) and some sort of community delivery service so people with mobility issues could have stuff brought to them if they wanted, maybe tied to a general welfare check for e.g. elderly and isolated/ Bit pie in the sky I realise and probably issues haven't occurred to me but we need to be thinking of different ways of doing stuff.
Because when proper infrastructure exists they’re not needed. Go to Amsterdam or Ghent and tell the people there they should wear a helmet. I’ll hear the laughter from here.
Can you expand on this or give a few links to read? AFAIK people with adapted vehicles or whatever the Belgian equivalent of our blue badge is can register and take their car into the city. And then with areas pedestrianised/no cars everywhere it’s easier to get around in a chair?
Well that electricity has to be generated somewhere. But no, pollution is but one part of a bigger picture of how cars strangle our spaces.
