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Agreed. If driving slow anyway for example letting a pedestrian across the road for example doesn't hold you up, you just apply slightly more pressure to the pedal and you're back where you were. For them they lose any time spent waiting, plus anything the weather is throwing at them.
The number of cyclists killed on British roads averages about 100 fataeach year
Yes, and then the number of cyclists killed on British roads might drop below about 100 each year
Aren't all polluting cars pretty much banned in a few years anyway ?
Probably less than the current 36,000 deaths a year from vehicle emissions, especially if all electric vehicles have an audible warning system a bit like reversing lorries do now.
I would say that this country hasn't got any REAL cycle paths, just bits of footpath which has been sectioned off for cycling.
Reducing the usage of cars is going to be a long and very difficult job given that our lives have been developed around their use.
My oh has lived in a lot of countries, and thinks the way the UK is engineered to force driving is very strange. Well, I say UK, apparently Ireland is the same. Several eu countries and in Japan she was fine with nothing, but needed a car in Ireland and here. She's also never seen such barriers to driving whilst it being so necessary, such excessive parking charges, or restrictions, that go hand on hand with a strange absence of our hideously expensive public transport. We manage to make driving very expensive, then justify it by making sure the alternative is worse.
I'm currently in Ireland, in a town of 1,300 people and it is probably easier to be carless here than in Stafford. I haven't driven the car 'as transport' since mid-November, just three little circular trips to keep it loosened up. The town has pretty much everything I need within a mile of the house and virtually anything, big or small, will be dropped off, if necessary. I used to shop, out of habit, at a Lidl about 12 miles away, but haven't been outside the current 5km limit since the last run there in November.
I'll see if I can fit the anti-tailgating device, as well.You have that sound and you're likely to find a Typhoon hovering about in your rear view mirror.
Someone here has noticed that I use slightly different routes on what are basically reciprocal journeys. This is because I have an inbuilt programme which requires me to take the first opportunity to cross, when I am walking along a road that I will need to cross over at some point, rather than end up standing around when I finally do need to cross, waiting for an elusive gap in the traffic.
The Dutch had the advantage of not having as many contours as us but they do seem more tolerant and less selfish .
Rofl.
We are there to a certain extent with Tesla because they have invested massively in their own infrastructure. If course to get the range you have to have a huge number of batteries, and that means you get reconciliatory heavy cars. Outside of Tesla, the charging infrastructure is appalling in so many ways that it deserves a thread of its own.
How quick can you charge a Tesla?
