"Steve Austin" wrote in message
news:MGwWa.237$9M3.20429@news.uswest.net...
> Adelaide, Australia is going to become car-free within the next five
> years as an ecocity-development called Christie Walk on Stuart Street and
> other eco-developments are being built throughout the city. This is
> happening in other Australian cities as well as the automobile's demise
all
> over the world begins. Six ecocity-developments are going up in downtown
> Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, and other Australian
cities.
> Seoul, Korea, Tokyo, Japan, and cities in the USA such as Cleveland, Ohio,
> Berkeley, California, and Portland, Oregon are all also doing this.
News to me, nice to be told about it by some-one in the USA who seems to
know far more than me.
If Sydney's going to become car free I don't know why the Transport
Minister's only announced huge road projects such as the City Orbital and
cross city tunel in just the last couple of months.
> All European cities are also doing this as is Vancouver, British
> Columbia, Canada, and Bogota, Colombia.
Every European city without exception? Even London, where the Mayor would
like to do this but is slightly more pragmatic.
Didn't see much evidence of it in the last couple of months when I visited
many European cities.
Whilst I would like to see more use of public transport worldwide, I don't
think that the automobile's demise is quite as close as your prediction. In
your dreams!
Regards
David Bennetts
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