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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (32010)11/10/2009 1:51:32 AM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation  Respond to of 46821
 
Frank, it might have seemed ridiculous [and impossible] 80 years ago to put 500 people into an aluminium tube, then zoom them up into the stratosphere, flying along at 1000 kph. But A380 travel is likely to be the safest, cheapest and fastest yet. <have you ever had aspirations of being an undertaker or an ambulance chaser? That's some pretty wild stuff >

Aircraft can fly themselves very well. Space shuttles allow only nominal pilot control.

A car rolling along a flat fixed surface at low speeds should be a doddle to manage. No matter what, it can't fall 10 km to the ground. On motorways, there's nothing to hit. With relative speeds of zero, other vehicles 1 metre away are no problem.

Even right now, there is all sorts of traffic engineering I could do, for near zero cost, to improve traffic flow rates. It seems that politicians and perhaps engineers are set on making life difficult for drivers. There's some perverse ideology going on.

In NZ, they dig up perfectly good roads and put speed bumps in them which can be driven over at 20 kph [and 5 kph for a bus]. They have one vehicle parked blocking a lane of traffic. Clearways should be the norm. It's idiocy to have 8000 vehicles [or whatever the lane flow rate is in those locations] blocked by one parked car which could have been parked 40 metres away down a side road.

There are swarms of such examples around Auckland and no doubt in other countries.

Places where I have NEVER been held up by congestion now have traffic lights, which are not turned off during off-peak hours.

No traffic lights are turned off after hours, or better still, switched to permanent green on the busier road with traffic on the intersecting roads treating red lights as give way signs.

It rhymes too: <The idea of tax-free taxis has merit though, although the way that works is one's water taxes would go up to compensate for it. > There would be no need to put up water prices, though that should be done too, but for different reasons - namely supply and demand and maximizing profit and varying prices depending on supplies. By raising water prices until people start making alternative arrangements, there would be less dependency on a single source [more disaster resistance in a community], more efficiency and better water supplies. Privatize the water supplies when it seems no more revenue can be squeezed out of it.

The tax to raise to compensate for tax-free taxis would be carbon tax on imported carbon. But better still would be swarms of tax cuts and spending cuts as well as law cuts [meaning repeal half the laws or maybe 80% of them].

Mqurice