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So you are saying we do nothing, let things get really bad and see what comes along, while we continue on a path that is obviously unsustainable?

I agree. I used to think nothing of riding 80 miles in a day. As soon as I was 17 I got a licence, had a car by the time I was 18 and then almost totally stopped cycling. I took up cycling again later at various times but didn't really get serious with it until about 10 years ago. The problem...

I'm not making up figures. I have seen numbers between 30 to 40%, depending where you are in the country. It is not always easy to get clear cut numbers - does it mean ownership, or just have access to a car? These fine details are important and often not clarified. I had not seen the Census...

As a guy on a bike you are probably not so easily intimidated by traffic. However, if you are a woman on your own or if you are a child cycling to school, it's a different matter. Would you let your 8 year old cycle through HGVs, Buses and fast moving traffic? In the NL, infra is designed so...

Drivers may resent spending on cycle infra, but they have nothing to complain about. A lot of drivers see the roads as theirs as they "pay road tax" - a tax that hasn't existed since 1937, car owners pay vehicle excise duty, which is effectively a licence to pollute. Everyone pays for roads...

Despite the efficiency of bikes, most of us are still suck in transport poverty: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/09/entrenched-car-culture-leaves-millions-of-britons-in-transport-poverty

I used too, until the garage roof leaked. I didn't notice until it was too late and all my old journals got turned into a soggy slimy mess. That picture was from someone selling a copy on eBay :)

Here we go, thought it was 73:

I think that graph comes from a Scientific American publication from approx 1973. Quite a few of those dots would have to be moved, aviation has become a lot more efficient over the last 50 years. I also don't like the animal comparisons. The ground based human transport on the graph requires...

I can see your point, a car with a range of 200 miles (and probably quite a bit less in the real world) does not seem very attractive. If I am driving 1000 miles, which I have to do a few times a year, I'd have to stop at least 5 times. Although, how often do you drive 200 miles in a single...

The link was an interesting read, but light on up to date references for source material. Seems not so easy to find up to date info on vehicle use in NL I did find this: https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/figures/detail/80302eng Which shows a reduction for 2019/2020, but of course we know why that...

Gross distortion and dubious assumptions there in order to fit your narrative. For a start, you ignore public transport use and rental cycles etc. Also, much of the increase in passenger car use is in the company car sector...then things like car sharing are growing rapidly in NL. You can't draw...

Anyway, getting back to the original topic, this is what a proper transport plan looks like for a city...

I can't help feeling it was a lost opportunity. We could be 15 years further down the road of electrification by now. Perhaps a third of all cars on the road could be EVs by now if the will had been there back in the 90s to push EV development and infra. Our cities would be a lot cleaner, we...

The G-Wiz was a travesty, it should never have been allowed on the road, it was a death trap and a friend of mine was killed in one. It was based on very old technology for the day and is an example of of the sort of rubbish that has held EVs back. The EV1 was an example of what could be...

Totally agree about the late 19th and early 20th Century EVs being far more appealing than modern Teslas :) Yes, car companies did put money into EV research, but you have to compare the amount spent on them in proportion with what was spent on ICE design and production at that time and also...

You forgot the Thomas Parker model c. 1895 And all the other production EVs of that era, when petrol could only be obtained from specialist pharmacies in small quantities and was basically a waste product people didn't know what to do with. The thing about Elon Musk and the Tesla is not that...

I say conspiracy, because what you are saying sounds like one. I am still waiting for facts from you to prove there is any basis behind what you are suggesting. Where is the government white paper saying that any government's policies over the last 25 years will deliberately target and reduce...

Probably should run the camera all the time regardless, but it gets tedious having to keep reviewing the footage, making sure the SD card isn't full and keeping the batteries charged. I have a bright flashing front light, which often induces pedestrians to look round when they see fluctuating...

So are you saying it's all a conspiracy of a cabal of evil bureaucrats we can do nothing about as we can't vote them out? What's the solution then, call in the Proud Boys to "Make Britain Great Again!"? :p Seems to me like you are stretching the facts to try and fit your theory, without...