> Even better is getting rid of the 'congestion', meaning mostly private
> cars whose (usually lone) drivers have no reason to be there because they
> are going somewhere else or are just looking for somewhere to leave the
> several tonnes of metal and plastic they brought to town with them.
Riding the Route 615 Baulkham Hills to the City bus this morning, I noticed
that nearly 90% of the cars had one person in them. The bus lanes were
also pretty pathetic, due to the fact that they are in completely the wrong
places - ie west of Epping, where there is no traffic anyway!
> Most of Amsterdam's streets are narrower than those of Sydney; most of
> them cope very well with trams in them. Ditto cities worldwide, from
> Dusseldorf to San Diego to Camoinhos do Jordao to Puerto Soller to
> Calcutta to Istanbul...
Ever tried Cairo? I had a friend who went there to do video, and he said
that the tram took nearly 4 hours to do one circuit! He said the whole
city looked like Parramatta Road in the year 2000!
-- David Johnson - Rail Services Authority trainman@ozemail.com.au trainman@railpage.org.au http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman