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Article #1346Re: Bicycle technology (Was: Re: Next carfree areas?)
From: George Conklin
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 12:22
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 12:22
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"Brian Sandle" <bsandle@ablatespam.snap.net.nz> wrote in message
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> In nz.reg.canterbury.general George Conklin <nilknoc@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > "Charles Hobbs" <chobbsNOSPAM@socal.rr.com> wrote in message
> > news:40E6E14D.8020900@socal.rr.com...
> >> Brian Sandle wrote:
> >>
> >> > So you won't go to Stanford campus till cars are allowed through?
> >> > Keeping off Catalina Island,
> >>
> >> Most people get around in golf carts there. There are a few cars on
> >> the island, mostly 4WD for people living in the backcountry.
> >>
> > Well, for those of us who live on small islands, then maybe a golf
cart
> > would do. For the rest of the world, are you wishing for horses?
>
> When you replied to me last year you pointed out how people love their
> cars. They did love their horses, too.
>
Great. Then we can go back to horses.
> With horses you would still have parking problems, and traffic jams if you
> only had the same number of people per drawn carriage as cars often have.
>
> Do many people carry bikes on public transport or in their cars in your
> area?
>
There are carriers on the front of each bus. About once or twice a year
I see a bicycle on one of the racks. I am sure the fuel used to haul around
the extra weight adds to the pollution of the diesel engines in the buses.
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