| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The telephone poll | |
| Posted by: | Andy Jones | |
| Date/Time: | 10/08/10 12:32:00 |
| Robin, Once again you frustrate attempts to engage in grown up debate with your rather juvenile habit of totally misrepresenting the views and motiviations of people that disagree with you whilst avoiding putting forward any sort of counter argument. I presume that by putting my name in inverted commas you are trying to suggest I am Chris in another guise. You can't come up with sound arguments so you are trying to undermine the credibility of those you disagree with - don't think anyone will buy it. Chris does seem to have a greater passion and understanding for public transport than you do. You seem to regard public transport of some sort of hairshirt that you have to suffer for not owning a car and continue to promote the rather dodgy view that the population is divided into non-car owning public transport lovers and greedy car owners determined to destroy the planet by blocking any suggested public transport improvement. These crude stereotypes aren't particularly constructive. Most European countries have developed much more successful by recognising people use a variety of transport and many trips are multi-modal i.e involve the use of a car and bus train. In the UK there does seem to be a dogma that regards the reduction of car use as the primary measure of transport policy success - this presumably is promoted by people like yourself with no family (single I'd guess), no dependent relatives and who don't work in a job that requires them to use a car. I'm genuinely sorry to hear that you suffer from ashtma but you should bear in mind that these are aggravated by particulates the output of which from even the largest 4x4 will be close to zero given modern engine technologies. Your breathing difficulties are most likely to have been caused by pollution caused by buses. I'm not making this observation as an attack on buses which I use travel in far more often than my car. Chris has far more knowledge on this subject that you do - I'm not saying he is necessarily always right but by responding to his arguments in the rather silly schoolboy way that you have done so far you make him appear to be talking complete sense. |