Hello, and thank you. I'd like to make three points:
1. Not Just Bikes and Strong Towns are two channels on YouTube that advance many arguments similar to these. In the US and Canada, the "stroad" is a particular issue.
2. I own a 35-year-old car and my answer is that I use it only for heavy groceries, visiting Italy and otherwise it stays put. Which does actually reinforce your point.
3. That figure for deaths on the roads is terrible. Do you know how many people die a day, that's every 24 hours, in India on the railways, who are not actually working or travelling on the system? Just people who wander in front of trains and get killed, that sort of thing. It's over 400.
The British gentleman who walked away from the Indian air crash recently, in which so many perished, may well need counselling. I wouldn't be surprised: being the only survivor of a big disaster raises a lot of questions that don't arise when one is among a large group who survive an accident. Mr Ramesh has lived an extraordinary experience. And, in the 17 seconds that his aircraft was airborne (if I can be allowed to round 26 seconds off to 17), someone statistically died in a car crash. These are the threads by which our existence is bound together.
Hello, and thank you. I'd like to make three points:
1. Not Just Bikes and Strong Towns are two channels on YouTube that advance many arguments similar to these. In the US and Canada, the "stroad" is a particular issue.
2. I own a 35-year-old car and my answer is that I use it only for heavy groceries, visiting Italy and otherwise it stays put. Which does actually reinforce your point.
3. That figure for deaths on the roads is terrible. Do you know how many people die a day, that's every 24 hours, in India on the railways, who are not actually working or travelling on the system? Just people who wander in front of trains and get killed, that sort of thing. It's over 400.
The British gentleman who walked away from the Indian air crash recently, in which so many perished, may well need counselling. I wouldn't be surprised: being the only survivor of a big disaster raises a lot of questions that don't arise when one is among a large group who survive an accident. Mr Ramesh has lived an extraordinary experience. And, in the 17 seconds that his aircraft was airborne (if I can be allowed to round 26 seconds off to 17), someone statistically died in a car crash. These are the threads by which our existence is bound together.
I wish I still had this comic — I saved it, but can't find it now!
In it, a decidedly alien-looking creature is standing in front of a screen with a pointer. The screen shows a birds-eye view of a car.
"We've discovered the dominant life-form on this planet", says the alien, as he points to the car.
The slide changes, and the alien continues, "And we've discovered their food source!"
And he points to a birds-eye view of a car door open, with a human getting inside.
So true, so true.
I have one. I drive it <25 miles, once a week, for groceries. Under 1,300 miles per year. The lack of food doesn't seem to have hurt it much.
Thank you for putting into words what I have known to be true but have not been able to write or verbalize.