| Topic: | Bad Manners | |
| Posted by: | Thomas Barry | |
| Date/Time: | 08/01/12 09:41:00 |
| "I suppose we should be grateful that you have chosen to comment " Yes, we should, given that it's obvious that Chris would like to post more here but is aware that by putting himself up to be shot at there's a risk of upsetting people if he replies honestly with facts they don't want to hear. What a grouchy, ill-mannered remark, Francis - this woe-is-me fake victimhood is the reason we get less information, not more. "the large number of people who get tickets because they are unaware of the change" Those who can't read roadsigns, presumably. How awful. "It is also illogical to think that reducing road capacity is the correct response to congestion" You're an expert in this area, presumably? Here's one of those facts people don't want to hear - it's well understood that adding road capacity can add to congestion, so not impossible for removing capacity to reduce it, particularly if accompanied by modal shift. Not a hard and fast rule, but nothing is in traffic engineering, it's all compromises eventually and we'd be better off if everyone accepted that and moved on to debate rationally how to balance competing interests against finite resources. Or 'politics' as it used to be known. |