Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Mr. Precision wrote:


David Jackman wrote:


The biggest disappointment is just how little you get for £
10,000,000,000 these days...

It's a lack of balls on the part of politicians. My personal favourite
is http://www.personalrapidtransit.com/.


Yes, this is what we need: a safe, clean, quiet, energy-efficient urban
transport system, using small, light vehicles, with no schedules or fixed
routes, which delivers people wherever they want to go, 24 hours a day, ~3
times faster than cars or buses. And kids can use it. All that, and it's
cheap, too.

The thing is, it's already been done: IT'S CALLED A BICYCLE!

And 99.9% of journeys are made on other forms of transport. Tell you
anything? People would rather use anything as long as it isn't a
bicycle. On a bike you have to put effort in, you get tired, you get
cold, you get wet, you get dirty, you get knocked down, you get sweaty
and Oh, you only travel at 15kph.

If you believe bicycles are the answer, you haven't thought the question
through.

--
Colin Smith: Colin.Smith at archeus.plus.com