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On 6 Jun, 12:21, Daniel Barlow <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nuxx Bar <[email protected]> writes:
> > roads each year. There would be other problems also caused by taking
> > cars away from people: how would people drive themselves or their
> > loved ones to hospital if there was no time to wait for an ambulance,
> > for example?
>
> Well, the other day I got a taxi, for example. Though the irony is
> that if the car driver that ran into me _had_ had his car taken away
> from him (I am not advocating this, merely commenting on the
> possibility), I wouldn't have whiplash and a dislocated clavicle in
> the first place.
>
> > As I said above, cars are vital for society in its current form.
>
> Many of the journeys made using them, however, are not. The taxi I
> was in on Wednesday got stuck in traffic several times, and A&E wasn't
> *nearly* full enough for them all to have been takng loved ones to
> hospital.
>
Having been hit and injured by cars myself I strongly sympathise with
you. Were you blamed initially, which seems to be a common practice
whenever cyclists are involved in crashes with drivers?
--
Car Free Cities
http://www.carfree.com/
Carfree Cities proposes a delightful solution
to the vexing problem of urban automobiles.
> Nuxx Bar <[email protected]> writes:
> > roads each year. There would be other problems also caused by taking
> > cars away from people: how would people drive themselves or their
> > loved ones to hospital if there was no time to wait for an ambulance,
> > for example?
>
> Well, the other day I got a taxi, for example. Though the irony is
> that if the car driver that ran into me _had_ had his car taken away
> from him (I am not advocating this, merely commenting on the
> possibility), I wouldn't have whiplash and a dislocated clavicle in
> the first place.
>
> > As I said above, cars are vital for society in its current form.
>
> Many of the journeys made using them, however, are not. The taxi I
> was in on Wednesday got stuck in traffic several times, and A&E wasn't
> *nearly* full enough for them all to have been takng loved ones to
> hospital.
>
Having been hit and injured by cars myself I strongly sympathise with
you. Were you blamed initially, which seems to be a common practice
whenever cyclists are involved in crashes with drivers?
--
Car Free Cities
http://www.carfree.com/
Carfree Cities proposes a delightful solution
to the vexing problem of urban automobiles.