Transport

Best Ideas

  1. Providing for cycling and walking cheaper than more public transport
  2. Pavement cycling illegal but lifesaving
  3. Protesters painting d-i-y bike lanes
  4. Roads, bridges and airports underground
  5. Pneumatic transport network for the UK
  6. Sustrans' 5,000 miles of cycle paths
  7. Bill to reduce traffic by 5% by 2005
  8. Negamiles non-car commuting allowance
  9. Car-free tax allowance
  10. Travelbucks - rewards for the car-free
  11. Firms meeting Clean Air requirements through telecommuting
  12. Daytime car lights for safety
  13. Volunteers driving at 30mph to slow down speedsters
  14. Where to board the tube for quickest exits
  15. Fastest plane boarding by window seats first
  16. Plane seat belts throughout flights
  17. Deaf people could live near airport
  18. More pauses needed in travel announcements
  19. Vertical stripes in buses reduce falls
  20. Post boxes with roadside openings

Social Inventions

  1. Car convicted in mock trial
  2. Give up the most dangerous drug of all - cars
  3. Give roundabouts sculptures and names
  4. Freewheelers - a lift sharing agency
  5. 8mph speed limits for residential roads
  6. Reprogram machismo drivers
  7. Bring back right-angled bends and traffic lights
  8. Ad bikes on free loan from racks
  9. Horizontal cable cars

Book of Visions

  1. Smart Cars, a proposal for a radically new transport system
  2. Fuel from water
  3. Solving London's traffic problems
  4. Bar codes on sides of cars
  5. Compulsory travel passes for university students
  6. Paying drivers to car- pool
  7. Car Sharers' Credit Card Club
  8. Auctioning the right to have cars
  9. Speeding up the Piccadilly line to Heathrow
  10. Faster tube platforms
  11. Improving trains for babies and children
  12. Cars piggybacked onto juggernauts
  13. Insurance sold with petrol
  14. Oil company buys up old cars to clear smog
  15. Auctioning unsold airline tickets
  16. Better express coach network
  17. Roof roads
  18. Services under pavements not roads
  19. Neighbourhood car rental (Berlin)
  20. Town-Welcome Lay-bys
  21. Compass bearings on signs
  22. Car-free cycling
  23. Non-impotence- causing bike seats
  24. Bike with wheelchair on front
  25. Hitch-hiker safety postcards
  26. Hitch-hikers' raffle tickets
  27. Tips from California
  28. Eye signs on the road
  29. Pedestrians crossing roads on sleeping policemen

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