On 13 Sep, 18:54, Tony Dragon wrote:
On 13/09/2010 10:20, Doug wrote:



On 13 Sep, 08:38, Derek *wrote:
On Sep 13, 7:51 am, *wrote:

On 12 Sep, 09:06, *wrote:

On Sep 12, 6:53 am, *wrote:

On 11 Sep, 09:59, "The Medway Handyman"davidl...@no-spam-

blueyonder.co.uk *wrote:
Doug wrote:
On 10 Sep, 20:07, "The Medway Handyman"davidl...@no-spam-
blueyonder.co.uk *wrote:
Doug wrote:
I realise this event is of little interest to most people in our car
dominated UK, or even an annoyance perhaps, but we do still have a
few of these events going on here to which cyclists are pleased to
attend and it is also a world wide event for those lurking on this
NG from abroad.

Has anyone else followed the link& *seen what these ****wits are up
to?

"PARK(ing) Day is a annual open-source global event where citizens,
artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered
parking spaces into "PARK(ing)" spaces: temporary public places.

Un ****ing believeable.

Some people badly need to get a life.

Yes the ones that deeply love cars and cause so many problems with
them, including partially blocking our roads with their parking
spaces.

Lets do it! *Lets get rid of the car!

Never mind the £52 billion + *the industry turns over, or the *800,000 jobs,
or the £23.6 billion fuel duty raised, or the *£5.1 *billion in VAT.

Oh **** - the UK economy has just crashed.

You are forgetting something, the overall costs of mass car use and
the fact that we don't need to get rid of all of them. A good first
step would be to halve car use which would then halve all the problems
it causes.

How would you go about doing that, please give us your master plan.

Several ways. Firstly, stop trying to make motoring look so attractive
when it is not, particularly in adverts and the motoring press.
Secondly, make cars carry a prominent health warning similar to
cigarettes. Thirdly, introduce road pricing more widely to make
motoring less competitive with public transport and more dependent on
distance traveled.
Fifthly, provide fewer car parking spaces, particularly the free 24/7
street garaging of cars.
Sixthly, make driving tests and medical tests more difficult and
renewable yearly.

That should about do it.

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OK if we do the same things for bicycles!

Why would they need to display a health warning and cyclists don't
street garage their bikes 24/7? As cyclists do not generally cause
pollution or congestion it would obviously not apply to them.


I have not noticed any cars that are left on the street for 24 hours a
day seven days a week.

Anecdotal. There are a few in my street which haven't been moved for
days and gather dust. Then, of course there are those that are only
used at weekends for gallivanting around and doing the bulk shopping
and are 24/5. Most are street garaged all night anyway, say 8/7 at
least?

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