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- From: d_smith@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Dylan Smith)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Bicycle riders
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.143248.1538@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 14:32:48 GMT
- References: <Bxz2s1.3sE@exnet.co.uk> <JC.92Nov20094833@mr-potter-t-crosser-i-dotter.fulcrum.co.uk> <11062@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
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- In article <11062@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> dmarsh@cs.strath.ac.uk (David R Marsh CS91) writes:
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- >enhance their performance. But seriously: lots of traffic calming, huge
- >parking fees, car bans from city centres, removal of company car perks,
- >massive investment in good quality public transport (especially rail and LRT),
- >huge petrol taxes etc. (Go on, flame me!)
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- Why flame you? Good idea as far as I can see, especially public transport
- and city-centre car bans (I never drive into Bristol city centre, it's
- cheaper to go by bus. The bus fare is lower than the cost to park without
- even considering the petrol cost)
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