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From: Conor on 30 Dec 2009 11:04 In article <ab2df32a-d85d-4fca-adef-a68ab89619e8 @j4g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>, Doug says... > > How many bicycles and electric buggies do you think it'd take to move > > 1000 tonnes of goods per day? > > > You clearly haven't begun to grasp this concept or don't want to. > Well explain how you'd move 1000 tonnes of goods per day to where they'd need to be then. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Conor on 30 Dec 2009 11:05 In article <b36ee52f-5d73-4eaf-81b6- 264578d5252a(a)m26g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, MasonS(a)BP.com says... > The same happens all over the city, drivers won't use the inside lane > in case a car is parked half a mile up the road, Speak for yourself. I always do down Beverley Rd and as a result, shave 5 minutes off the journey time into town. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: dan on 30 Dec 2009 11:10 Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> writes: > In article <b36ee52f-5d73-4eaf-81b6- > 264578d5252a(a)m26g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, MasonS(a)BP.com says... > >> The same happens all over the city, drivers won't use the inside lane >> in case a car is parked half a mile up the road, > > Speak for yourself. I always do down Beverley Rd and as a result, shave > 5 minutes off the journey time into town. .... and that time saving would presumably be because it's mostly empty of other motorists, right? I really don't think you're disagreeing with Simon here. -dan
From: MasonS on 30 Dec 2009 12:22 On 30 Dec, 16:10, d...(a)telent.net wrote: > Conor <co...(a)gmx.co.uk> writes: > > In article <b36ee52f-5d73-4eaf-81b6- > > 264578d52...(a)m26g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, Mas...(a)BP.com says... > > >> The same happens all over the city, drivers won't use the inside lane > >> in case a car is parked half a mile up the road, > > > Speak for yourself. I always do down Beverley Rd and as a result, shave > > 5 minutes off the journey time into town. > > ... and that time saving would presumably be because it's mostly empty > of other motorists, right? I really don't think you're disagreeing with > Simon here. > > -dan Exactly. He just proved my point that the inside lanes are largely empty, as most drivers stick in the overtaking lane all of the time (Spring Bank West into Hull ring a bell? - no cycle lane there) - no wonder they end up losing them. -- Simon Mason
From: Doug on 30 Dec 2009 12:30
On 30 Dec, 08:52, "The Medway Handyman" <davidl...(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > Doug wrote: > > On 29 Dec, 15:33, Conor <co...(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > >> In article <a3cf6e72-619c-4027-aa20-5c3fc6639d01 > >> @d21g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, Doug says... > > >>>> I wonder how the residents get their food and the goods they > >>>> buy.... > > >>> Shouldn't be too difficult for you to work it out. Think lifts > >>> instead of cars, with trains bring the goods to the base of the > >>> city. Cycles or electric buggies could be used for horizontal > >>> travel at each level. > > >> Really? Any idea how many tonnes of supplied an average town gets > >> through in a day? Here's a clue, its well into four figures. Hell, > >> the local Tesco in Bridlington gets 200 tonnes per day of deliveries > >> and its not the sole supermarket nor the sole recipient of goods in > >> that town. > > >> How many bicycles and electric buggies do you think it'd take to move > >> 1000 tonnes of goods per day? > > > You clearly haven't begun to grasp this concept or don't want to. > > Question neatly avoided. How would you move 1000 tonnes of good per day? > The obvious clumsily avoided by you. The same as anywhere else, fork lift trucks, preferably electric. Now would you like to deal with the main point that cars would no longer be needed? -- Car Free Cities http://www.carfree.com/ Carfree Cities proposes a delightful solution to the vexing problem of urban automobiles. |