> On 30 Nov, 09:23, NM
all.com> wrote:>> Doug wrote:
>>
>>> Probably because they are enhancing my difficulties, with their
>>> dangerous pollution and lack of driving skills and contribution to
>>> climate change as well as their 24/7 nose-to-tail free street garaging
>>> which is a considerable nuisance and inconvenience to me.
>>
>> How? You live a few hundred yards from your main grocery outlet. The
>> town hall, a theatre, the library, station and numerous shops are all so
>> close to your house it wouldn't make any sense to even cycle there
>> (though that a lot of them are in a pedestrian area probably means you
>> do cycle just to be peverse). You need to cross one main road and that
>> has pedestrian light controlled crossings and safety barricades, there
>> is not a single street you need to cross that has any parked cars on it,
>> it's all double yellows and red routes. Where is the inconvienience and
>> nuisence in your day to day life?
>>
> You don't seem to know much about where I live or are confusing me
> with someone else perhaps?
NM's description sounds fairly typical of most on London and any other large
conurbation. What makes yours different?
>> I have
>>
>>> already been run over once and to be sure the pollution is not doing
>>> my lungs any good. It seems to be a question of what will get me
>>> first.
>>
>> So have I, twice in fact, once as a child I ran out in front of a car
>> that was actually driven by my schoolteacher, severe bruising, my fault,
>> and again in Turkey at a market in Istanbul, again severe brusing, this
>> time not my fault. Shit happens, get over it.
>>
> I suffered worse than severe bruising and was in intensive care for a
> period.
I suffered a fracture femur and lost a large lump of lfesh from the rear of
my thigh buttock. I also spent several days in intensive care and was in bed
(literally) for six months followed by several months at a rehabilitation
unit.
However, I don't hate cars or car drivers.
> In London air pollution is mainly caused by road traffic whereas
> pollution in other parts of the country tend to come from farming and
> industry. I don't know which is worse, breathing crap or drinking and
> eating poisons.
>
So what was the cause of the pollution before the mass use of cars?
