On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 20:33:11 +0000, iantheengineer wrote:
Are we really going to be able to limit licences? I cant see thsi unless we
have to start paying for them. I am sure the human rights brigade would have
plenty to say about allowing Eddie to have a licence but not George

The population of the UK remains steady, so the maximum number of licenses
remains steady.

This of course is a flaw in the anti-car brigade's logic. They say build
more roads you get more Traffic, but fail to realise that the absolute
maximum amount of traffic on the roads in car hours per day is equal to
the population * 24.

If you build a western Birmingham bypass and it fills up, traffic on the
M5/M6 will decrease, howeveR more local commuters will use the road,
reducing traffic on local residential roads, which is good.

Think of the chaos that could be caused if the M5 over the river Avon is
closed for 6 months. Suddenly 4 lanes of traffic, including 2 long
distance lanes, is sent through Bristol. I don't know about traffic
planners, but in my industry we have redundancy, and don't run our systems
at anywhere near 100%.