Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 12:57:33 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: M-TH: faux po


James Heartfield wrote:

>The government here was revealed to have been engineering congestion on
>British roads by staggering traffic lights and introducing spurious
>diversions and unwanted cycle lanes (Sunday Times last week). the govt's
>goal is to clog up the traffic to create a disincentive to travel on the
>roads. At the same time the London underground is starved of investment,
>leading to massive congestion there too.

So what's the problem here? The "traffic calming" strategy itself, or the
lack of investment in the Underground? I have a feeling you & LM will
denounce the traffic calming as the oppressive scheming of pointy-headed
elitist bureaucrats, and will celebrate the car as a populist instrument of
liberation. Am I wrong?





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