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- From: pho@mserv1.dl.ac.uk (P.Owens,C20,3492)
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.misc
- Subject: Re: Is there hope (for car drivers) ?
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 14:13:53 GMT
- Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK
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- david@postman.gr.osf.org (David George) wrote:
- > 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 ?
-
- The car driver still has to breath the same air (which, if anything, will be
- more polluted due to being extracted closer to the ground). The reduced journey
- time should more than compensate for the increased breathing rate.
-
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- Pete Owens
- P.Owens@daresbury.ac.uk
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