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- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!paperboy.osf.org!david
- From: david@postman.gr.osf.org (David George)
- Subject: Is there hope (for car drivers) ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.115139.6745@osf.org>
- Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System)
- Organization: OSF RI Grenoble
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 11:51:39 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- I did a strange thing yesterday. I drove a car into the centre of town.
- (Grenoble, France pop 150,000). I felt I had to as I wanted to deliver
- some stuff not easily tranportable by bike. The journey covered a distance
- of 14 km (about 9 miles) and the 'driving' time was 1 hour 30 minutes. I'm
- told this is typical for the 6pm - 7pm post rush hour period. Sat in the
- car I thought, I could cycle this distance in 40 minutes easily and people do
- this everyday of their working lives !!!
-
- Now the big problem with cycling around here is pollution, 60% of it caused
- by motorcars. Catalysors and Lead Free petrol are not that common either.
- Anyone making the jump from car driving to cycling is immediately faced with
- breathing huge quantities of toxic air. Now I'm planning on moving as I'm seem
- to have developed a whole range of pollution related illnesses, so what hope
- is there ?
-
- David.
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