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Let's forget it and stir up the real thread...escotregen wrote:See letter in todays Herald from an affected local resident. I couldn't have put in better myself i.e. 'More Motorways=More Car Journeys=Worse and Even More Unsustainable Future=Short-sighted Demand for Even More Motorways'
Apollo wrote:I love these quotes, not only because they're so stupid, but for the image of a tree-hugging greenie, sitting in their grass hut, exercising their one brain cell on the imagination that their gas-guzzling car owning opponent has nothing better to do than sit in their brick built, CO2 spewing home, and search the news for new roads to go out and drive on.
Apollo wrote: it isn't going to happen, ever, so long as all the parties involved are allowed to have biased and discrimanatory stances.
duncan wrote:Apollo wrote:I love these quotes, not only because they're so stupid, but for the image of a tree-hugging greenie, sitting in their grass hut, exercising their one brain cell on the imagination that their gas-guzzling car owning opponent has nothing better to do than sit in their brick built, CO2 spewing home, and search the news for new roads to go out and drive on.Apollo wrote: it isn't going to happen, ever, so long as all the parties involved are allowed to have biased and discrimanatory stances.
kelvin_hall wrote:It's like cupboard space, no matter how much you have you still fill it.
Strike Team wrote:I'm still trying to understand how building more roads "causes more traffic"? Can someone enlighten me please?
Sir Roger DeLodgerley wrote:Simply building a new road has no impact on these aspects of the decision and so the process of deciding whether or not to drive to work is more complex that you maintain.
red_kola wrote:I ... did not at any point suggest, let alone maintain, that things were anywhere near that one-dimensional. OK?
Sir Roger DeLodgerley wrote:You did when you stated:
"When you build a road to alleviate pressure upon another road it merely creates a whole new viable category of journeys to take their place."
I'm arguing that you cannot draw such a direct conclusion because there are many other factors which influence the outcome. I'm doing it in a friendly way though.
red_kola wrote:But this will be getting tedious for everybody else...
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