Re: these new eco-towns and the railway

On Jun 30, 9:16 pm, Charlie Hulme <i...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
EE507 quotes:

"All towns used to be “eco-towns” in one way or another before the
arrival of the car."

A time-traveller to Stockport before the arrival of the car
would struggle to describe it as an 'eco-town' with dozens
of factory chimneys, not to mention steam locos, belching
out filthy smoke into the atmosphere...

True, I suspect he has confused problems associated with the
industrial revolution and the number one source of urban air pollution
in the modern de-industrialised economies of today, or maybe he's
thinking of China and India's astonishingly rapid addiction to the car?
.

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