Re: Smart motorways
Originally Posted by
JBR
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I suspect if you had your way, we'd be using horses and carts.
If you really think to discourage people from using their cars, you're barking up the wrong tree...
or perhaps just barking!
Horses and carts no, but much more use of rail for people and freight really should be MADE to happen and the best way to do that is by making use of personal care and trucks prohibitively expensive and only viable for very exceptional circumstances where the need justifies the lunatics cost.
Canals really should be brought back into service and expanded and use of coastal shipping to link with onshore distribution be brought back not to mention transport of goods by sea replacing the HORRENDOUS waste resulting from the use of air transport
We are now at the end of the cheap travel age because it is patently obvious that it has not been cheap in environmental cost terms and is big time unaffordable.
Anthropogenic climate change is now an inescapable fact and release of greenhouse gasses resulting from burning fossil fuels must end.
We're at the end of the cheap transport age because it's now clear that it's anything but cheap and starting the responsible transport and movement age.