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Article #1364Re: Next carfree areas?
From: George Conklin
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 12:42
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 12:42
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"Brian Sandle" <bsandle@ablatespam.snap.net.nz> wrote in message news:1088831858.91066@kyle.snap.net.nz... > In nz.reg.canterbury.general John David Galt <jdg@diogenes.sacramento.ca.us> wrote: > >> Here is a long list of carfree areas, albeit some with quite a bit of > >> public transport. > > > Thanks for the good list of places to avoid. > > So you won't go to Stanford campus till cars are allowed through? > Keeping off Catalina Island, Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, Isla > Vista, Columbia, all of California, where your email address is, already. > > Put roads and parking areas in all those, then you will increase teh > amount of time people spend in traffic jams and reduce the quality of > life. Also when fuel gets expensive the infrastructure to transport > people will not be there and standards of living will get very low. > > Get a start. Enjoy kids playing in the streets rather than being in > traffic jams and pollution. I can just imagine this fellow 100 years ago ranting against horses and pushing for mules.
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