21st February 2007, 02:18 PM
But arent "better forms of public transport" still internal combustion engined concepts? Reducing volumes of personal transport to a roughly equivalent volume of public transport (in all its guises) simply increases the business opportunities for transport companies without addressing the obvious? Emmissions are emmissions-wether they come from private or corporate transport systems.I am yet to hear of "new" transport systems that will eradicate cfc and carbon emmissions. If "people need cars", then why are we not as an advanced industrial nation flooding the market with new, clean technologies? The governments approach to the environment is a simple and as yet, an unchallenged one; continue in the same vein but shift profit margins to localised transport corporations, lie about emmission levels, maintain the car industry moghuls and suck more money from the tax-payer in the process.
..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)
..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)