Re: I have been CHALLENGED. . .

TimC <tconnors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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There's not 100 times more cars than bikes in London. In *Australian*
car-friendly cities, there's still only 20-50 times more car-km made than
bike-km.

Yes, but British transport policy heavily favours car travel and discourages
public transportation, apparently in order to maximise tax take.

In central London, where the taxation is so onerous that it's pricing people
off the roads, I estimate that about 5-10% of the traffic is bicycles with
much of the rest being buses, taxis and delivery vans. But as you venture
further afield, bicycle usage quickly declines.

I was pottering around Wimbledon yesterday and the only bikes I saw were
in a bike shop.

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