al_yrpal wrote:I am still mystified, what is this radicalism?
Al
Put another way, is it time to think again about the way we move about,in that the way we're currently doing it is,dirty from an ecological POV,inefficient in time and energy consumption,a dead end so,do we wait until we reach saturation point and the brick wall is reached,then start to make decisions?
It seems,going off one or two posts, that once again the only motivation to carry on as we are, is profit,a belief in perpetual motion,where car manufacture and use increases GDP and such an increase is supportive to build more cars increase GDP and we're all the better for it
Some are looking further down the street and can see the wall,others are more interested in gorging themselves in the trough of consumerism.
Take a look on any urban street after 6pm,it's full of cars,they sit there until it's time for work then they transport their owners to work and sit on a car park somewhere all day until the pattern is repeated.
Is there a better way to move around?
So what do we do,continue on the same street until it's so full of cars that we cannot,even if we want to,walk down that street.
Or are we to look outside the box(on wheels)for another means of transporting what are small units(people)about the country to carry out their business,bearing in mind most journeys are short to medium distance?
I'm asking the question.
Is there a better way to do this thing?
It appears that the question in itself is radical enough,let alone actually finding an answer to what is a very real problem for the country as a whole if not the whole of mankind.
I'm of the opinion that for many it's like a creeping cancer that hasn't been noticed for what it is,from the stress levels caused by driving in high traffic levels,to the big slice of their income taken up by owning and running a motor car,to the diseases caused by car use,to the numerous Middle East wars caused by oil reserves in that part of the world and not the smoke screen of religion,which is just a spin off of an occupation army and puppet governments put in place by what is termed as 'the great evil' by those defending their own countries from what they see as total domination,however evil they themselves have become in the process.
Is there a better way than this?
What practical steps IYV should be taken?
The answer surely,rather than people move around singularly(which is more often than not)in small boxes that clog up the highways when in use,and streets,roads and spare ground when not,is to to move those people around en-bloc in bigger vehicles ie; clean,reliable,comfortable,affordable,public transport.
Of course it's not a total answer but could take an awful lot of the burden off the roads,use of odds and even numberplated cars on alternative days could also help,better and more useful cycling facilities for those short runs to the public transport stops/hubs.With very few exceptions,car use banned in city and town centres,park and ride and bicycles being the only way to access whose centres for able bodied people,within the centres electric buggy hire for those that can't walk far for whatever reason.
Ceasing to build out of town shopping malls that need a car to get to.
Ceasing to promise economic growth year on year based on a carcentricism(new word
)Some of this is being done already but it's merely tinkering around the edges ATM,there could be much more......
