[sustran] Re: Indian roads - planes, cows, elephants, mosques

[Martin Cassini]

Could the assertion that the long term effect of eliminating idling
"will be longer ways, etc" have more to do with dogma than logic?

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Subject: [sustran] Re: Indian roads - planes, cows, elephants, mosques


On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 05:45:24PM +0100, Martin Cassini wrote:

> website: "If every driver in Canada avoided idling for 5 minutes a 
> day, 1.6 million tonnes of CO2 would not enter the atmosphere. It is

Thats not true. There is a constant in traffic: The time how long people
are on their way: about 90 minutes average every day. If you avoid
idling, the long term effect will be longer ways, including sprawl and
the same car affecting a wider area with noise and danger.

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