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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!jrdodd
- From: jrdodd@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.misc
- Subject: Re: Is there hope (for car drivers) ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.183253.12985@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 18:32:53 +1300
- References: <1992Dec23.115139.6745@osf.org>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <1992Dec23.115139.6745@osf.org>, david@postman.gr.osf.org (David George) writes:
- > 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.
- >
- Move to New Zealand...
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