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"Roderick Stewart" wrote:
In article , Talk-n-Dog wrote:
To help the Co2 that worries so many.... limit the population of cities
to what the reasonable flow of traffic will handle(or just a MAX
capacity for any city).

Yes, limiting the population is the ultimate answer to nearly all our
problems, though I can see a few possible practical and/or ethical
problems putting this into effect. How exactly would you "limit the
population of cities"? What would you do with all the excess people?

How about this:

Central government empowers local authorities to decide how
much housing is needed but tells them they must use brownfield
sites for the betterment of the town/city environments - eg for
parks, playgounds, leisure etc., thus improving the quality of
life for existing residents. New housing may only be built when
land becomes available.

Population growth is almost entirely due to immigration and
since we have no responsibility for new arrivals (immigrants)
they should be turned away.

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altheim

"charles" wrote:
altheim wrote:

But from my wish-list you have only mentioned one desi
"to where you want to go" and already your public transport
fails. Suppose you want to visit Aunt Maud in Lytchett Minster
in the morning and be back home for Eastenders and while,
there she asks you to deliver a present for her brother in
Bury St Edmunds 'cos its his birthday. . . See my point?
The chances of being able to do that by public transport
is virtually nil.

but .. your Aunt, if she knew you were using public transport, could have
posted her brother's present. But she knew you were coming by car and
wouldn't mind a 'minor' detour.

That is just being unnecessarily picky. My example was
just one of thousands I could have used to show why a
car is better than the bus or train. They can't stop on a
whim because you spotted a village fete or a pick your
own strawberry field.

--
altheim

"altheim" wrote

Are you really pleased to see our Greenbelt disappear
under concrete to give yet more immigrants somewhere
to live?

"Greenbelt" my arse.

Start with the golf courses.


You nationalist *******.

In article ,
altheim wrote:

"Roderick Stewart" wrote:
In article , Talk-n-Dog wrote:
To help the Co2 that worries so many.... limit the population of cities
to what the reasonable flow of traffic will handle(or just a MAX
capacity for any city).

Yes, limiting the population is the ultimate answer to nearly all our
problems, though I can see a few possible practical and/or ethical
problems putting this into effect. How exactly would you "limit the
population of cities"? What would you do with all the excess people?

How about this:

Central government empowers local authorities to decide how
much housing is needed but tells them they must use brownfield
sites for the betterment of the town/city environments - eg for
parks, playgounds, leisure etc., thus improving the quality of
life for existing residents. New housing may only be built when
land becomes available.

Population growth is almost entirely due to immigration and
since we have no responsibility for new arrivals (immigrants)
they should be turned away.

but the demand for new housing is caused by single parent families.
Nothing to do with immigrants.

--
From KT24 - in "Leafy Surrey"

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11

In article ,
altheim wrote:

"charles" wrote:
altheim wrote:

But from my wish-list you have only mentioned one desi
"to where you want to go" and already your public transport
fails. Suppose you want to visit Aunt Maud in Lytchett Minster
in the morning and be back home for Eastenders and while,
there she asks you to deliver a present for her brother in
Bury St Edmunds 'cos its his birthday. . . See my point?
The chances of being able to do that by public transport
is virtually nil.

but .. your Aunt, if she knew you were using public transport, could have
posted her brother's present. But she knew you were coming by car and
wouldn't mind a 'minor' detour.

That is just being unnecessarily picky. My example was
just one of thousands I could have used to show why a
car is better than the bus or train. They can't stop on a
whim because you spotted a village fete or a pick your
own strawberry field.

But perhaps we'll all have to regulate our lives a little bit to "save the
world".

--
From KT24 - in "Leafy Surrey"

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:29:22 GMT, "altheim"
wrote:

Take a flight over the UK in a light aircraft. It is nowhere near
crowded.

I take it you are happy with the state of Britain just the way
it is?

Are you really pleased to see our Greenbelt disappear
under concrete to give yet more immigrants somewhere
to live?

Our "greenbelt" is not disappearing. That was the point in asking you
to take a look from the air.

--
Cynic

On Jul 22, 12:59 pm, "altheim" wrote:
"Talk-n-Dog" wrote:
Alan White wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:44:59 GMT, "altheim" wrote:

The first motorway (the M1)...

The first motorway was the Preston by-pass, opened in the mid '50s.

I was under the impression that Hitler had built the Autobon during WWII
for troop and government to move more quickly.

The Autobahn yes of course but we're talking about UK
motorways'

Culdesac.

On Jul 22, 2:57 pm, "altheim" wrote:

Population growth is almost entirely due to immigration and
since we have no responsibility for new arrivals (immigrants)
they should be turned away.

Why, how very conservative of you.
Keep that up and soon you'll be catching on to the co2agw fraud.

"Cynic" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:27:58 GMT, "altheim"
wrote:

I'm sure that is true but when I talk about what the indigenous pop.
would like I'm talking about those services and amenities I
mentioned initially and not necessarily the way of life they grew
up with. For them to recover requires either an increase in the
size of Britain or a reduction in population.

Take a flight over the UK in a light aircraft. It is nowhere near
crowded.

It seems it if the pilot farts.

Bill

"Wood Pigeon" wrote in message
...
"altheim" wrote

Are you really pleased to see our Greenbelt disappear
under concrete to give yet more immigrants somewhere
to live?

"Greenbelt" my arse.

Is this a perversion I haven't encountered?

Bill