tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post114598424527791241..comments2023-11-19T17:31:49.939+00:00Comments on Bristling Badger: two wheels good, four wheels badUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post-1146011903597637842006-04-26T01:38:00.000+01:002006-04-26T01:38:00.000+01:00Actually, I'd hazard a guess that his "preferred c...Actually, I'd hazard a guess that his "preferred commuting time" could be sustained, and even reduced, if he used an efficient public transport system that didn't need to share the roads with private cars. The vast majority of commuter traffic is cars occupied by a single person. So in theory you could reduce the number of commuter vehicles by a factor of 80 just by putting all those drivers into bog-standard Dublin doubledecker buses.<BR/><BR/>And of course, if you decided to get creative with trams and urban light rail systems, you could phase out lots of those buses too. That's without a planned system of localisation, so that overall fewer people need to travel and the distances they travel are shorter.<BR/><BR/>As I've said before (many times), there's no <EM>engineering</EM> obstacle to a sustainable infrastructure. It just requires people to accept a different way of life. And do it far enough in advance to implement the solutions.<BR/><BR/>And they all lived happily ever after.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com