How long is it going to take for us to realise that no particular group of road users is more offensive than ohers?
Isn't it now obvious that our society can no longer keep up with the wasteful infrastructure of vehicular roads and their constant mainainance up to reasonable safety standards combined with the increasing traffic density and danger of faster more powerful cars and bikes?
When will we realise that our long love affair with private "driving" has become a dangerous liason with death and injury, and a serious factor in the increasing production of greenhouse gases which affect the health of our whole community?
No, it isn?t obvious at all?
The problem isn?t that the ?love affair? has gone sour ? there are just too many of us. I enjoy driving as much as I did thirty years ago when I passed my test. I don?t love it more now, it isn?t inherently more dangerous now ? there are just more people trying to do the same thing.
Getting people to give up ?driving? per se simply isn?t a solution ? you?d soon be back to the situation where the roads were awash with ?public? transport systems and we?d be no better off (nor would the environment).
The only solution to the problem is to restrict the currently unfettered growth in world population.
I?m sick of being told what I can or can?t do ?because of the environment? yet not one politician has the guts to actually say what everybody knows ? there are too many of us here for the planet to support. Worse, the UK?s tosspot PM is intent on creating his own population explosion.
