Far be it from me to suggest that people have been keeping a bit quiet about the plans for the major reduction in the number of cars for fear it would discourage the necessary R&D in electric vehicles, but ....
Right now TPTB in Southampton are making a right old mess of getting to work (which I do there only once a month). It appears that a whole lane is being given over to cyclists. Very worthy no doubt, but it won't change the behaviour of most commuters from the suburbs and certainly not from further afield. In this respect, carrots might work, sticks do not. ?
ETA: right now, the M27 is being "upgraded" to smart, presumably to make it easier to join the traffic jams in the city.
Far be it from me to suggest that people have been keeping a bit quiet about the plans for the major reduction in the number of cars for fear it would discourage the necessary R&D in electric vehicles, but ....
Right now TPTB in Southampton are making a right old mess of getting to work (which I do there only once a month). It appears that a whole lane is being given over to cyclists. Very worthy no doubt, but it won't change the behaviour of most commuters from the suburbs and certainly not from further afield. In this respect, carrots might work, sticks do not. ?
ETA: right now, the M27 is being "upgraded" to smart, presumably to make it easier to join the traffic jams in the city.
