🚀 go-pugleaf

You boys stop fightin!

acooke, you agree that if we had an integrated modern mass transit
system, fewer people would bother to go to the expense of owning and
driving cars in compact cities. I guess you mean people just do it to
escape the unpleasantness of riding horrible buses. I agree.

FoFP, you don't want to pay for anything you don't use. I hope you're
not forgetting the countless pounds you yourself have donated to the
road-building and automobile industries through taxes. Actually I don't
know if you're a driver or not... If so, congratulations. Drivers make
out with more than their share of resources. But perhaps you're not, in
which case, congratulations. Pedestrians &cyclists are healthier. On the
other hand, they get fleeced, frightened, and occasionally squashed by
drivers.

In any case, the task at hand is weaning city drivers of their habit.
Buses, trams and cycles are the obvious alternatives, given that we want
to go faster than walking speed. Imagine all the money that goes into
roads and cars going into such an integrated system? It would be cheaper
by far. Unfortunately no one would make big bucks, so protest and
confrontation is in order. 

Critical Mass, anyone?

ira