"Neil Williams" wrote in message
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On 2016-12-09 04:47:02 +0000, Ding Bat said:

Meanwhile, there are concerns about exhaust from burning natural gas[4];
next step fuel cells?

Get the wires up, get the trams and trolleybuses rolling.

And get rid of black cabs in their current form. They are large,
polluting and utterly unnecessary for anyone other than those of limited
mobility - it's very rare indeed for them to be the quickest way of making
any journey in central London, so those who are not of limited mobility
are basically just being lazy[1] by using them. Stop issuing licences and
let the trade die naturally over the next 30 years, replacing it with some
form of service for those of limited mobility using electric vehicles.

[1] Corporate travel policies increasingly ban them,

the only time that I got a London taxi on company money was when we had to
transport a number of full sized presentation boards to a demonstration
across town.

we easily got them in the back of a taxi, but without that option would have
had to hire a van (which would have been difficult to arrange "now", even if
it were cheaper)

tim






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