Re: when 70% of drivers are banned from the road

George Conklin wrote:
> "Eric Vey" <junker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> George Conklin wrote:
>>> "Eric Vey" <junker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> Jack May wrote:
>>>> In Europe cars are almost 90%  of the
>>>>> travel
>>>> Prove it.
>>>     Data sources going back 20 years show the same intercity patterns.
>>>
>>>
>> Intercity. What about intracity? Since most people in Western Europe
>> don't like to commute from city to city, intracity is much more
>> im****tant to them.
> 
>     Travel patterns in the USA and Europe show differences only on
> long-distance train travel vs. airline travel, with about less than 10%
> difference even there.  Of course, if you can hide passenger travel by
> loading costs onto money-losing freight service (like used to be done in
the
> USA too), you can start to "prove" all kinds of things.
> 
> 
> 
So what you are saying is that people in Western Europe, have 2-3 SUV's 
in the driveway. Routinely drive 25 or more miles to work and on the 
weekends drive 100 miles to visit Grandma?