Saturday, April 02, 2011

Imagine that...

A society that has such good public transportation that they could even CONSIDER this:
EU to ban cars from cities by 2050

4 comments:

Steve Bates said...

Nice... but we haven't got 40 years. Ten, maybe; 15 at the most. More draconian, please...

[CAPTCHA text: "cloorin" ... what you add to a city water supply?]

ellroon said...

We were promised jetpacks!

Steve Bates said...

It just occurred to me to mention that some European cities, e.g., London, have had traffic jams since the 19th century... not autos, of course, but I can't imagine that the ambient horses**t made the jams any easier to bear.

ellroon said...

I was reading somewhere about the horse traffic in late 1800s in New York, and how they would let the poor animals remain where they fell and died. The garbage was in drifts and the street urchins were paid to clear a path for the wealthy...

To say it smelled would be too subtle...