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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: uk.transport
- Subject: Re: City Traffic
- Message-ID: <930126.160042.1t6.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 16:00:42 GMT
- References: <21132@acorn.co.uk> <930122.165530.6d7.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk> <1993Jan25.123723.2974@lsl.co.uk>
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- snail@lsl.co.uk writes:
- >In article <930122.165530.6d7.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk>,
- >mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
- >> Another factor is that people tend to ignore the time taken to find parking
- >> when they calculate their journey time by car. You may have to wait ten
- >> minutes to get a bus into Cambridge from Chesterton, but you can easily
- >> spend twenty minutes queueing for a parking space on Saturdays.
- >
- > Huh? If I lived in Chesterton (and I nearly did, till someone out bid me) I'd
- > walk or cycle everywhere. The walk is OK, only one horribly large roundabout
- > to negotiate, and you can avoid that. Why get the bus, unless you're old,
- > unfit or unwell, or carrying a lot of stuff?
-
- I do. I often walk from the Science Park to the city centre. I was
- assuming, however, that people wanted to talk about general solutions to
- problems, rather than solutions suitable for 18-30 year olds in good health
- who aren't going shopping. And people do drive from Chesterton to Cambridge
- to go to the shops, I've followed them on my bike.
-
-
- mathew
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