Re: How about car-free cities?/ Liberer nos villes des autos?

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From: Le Guerrier Louis-Luc
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 00:00

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John McCarthy (jmc@Steam.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
: Le Guerrier replies as follows:
: 
:      I suggest the horse as a truck replacement, not as a
:      car. Not everyone owns a truck (a lorry), so not everyone
:      would own a horse, but mostly transport companies in
:      fact. Most people are able to bike or walk to the railway
:      for their everyday moves, to do casual shopping,
:      groceries. Just a bike with a basket or a trike does the
:      job.
: 
:      There would still be less horses per inhabitant in the human
:      city than before 1900, but a much wider railway
:      network. Imagine what would have happened if the gas motor
:      wouldn't be invented. The railway network would have
:      expanded much more, so it would have become easier with time
:      to live without a horse.
: 
: I guess this is all the detail we can expect from him.
: -- 
: John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
If you have something constructive to add, go ahead. Otherwise, we don't
need comments which directly attack a person.

Louis-Luc

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From: leguerrl@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Le Guerrier Louis-Luc)
Subject: Re: How about car-free cities?/ Liberer nos villes des autos?
Date: 1999/05/31
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