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Old September 13th 09, 11:09 AM posted to uk.rec.cycling
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Default "Cycling is not dangerous. Cars are dangerous."

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Alex Potter wrote:
JNugent wrote on Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:26:33 +0100:

Banning buses, surely?


Wrong. Try again.


Why? In smaller cities, such as Cambridge, buses are not viable
for enough of the trips to consider banning cars, for precisely the
same reason that the traffic problems in Los Angeles (and that
franchise of Mephisopheles himself) Las Vegas are not amenable to
ANY public transport solution.

If you think it through, a viable solution WOULD be to ban buses,
and to introduce a continental-style implicit liability for people
driving motor vehicles in the relevant area.

But that's too radical to contemplate, so we shall continue to be
inflicted with 'safe' solutions that obviously aren't going to work
(and won't).


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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