I don't know beans about batteries, but I have been a commuter for quite a few years. Earlier this week, a woman was attempting to cross the street near my house. She waited for the light, and when she got the walk signal, she started across. The woman got partly across and was clobbered by a garbage truck turning left. Apparently, garbage takes precedent over human life. As a life-long bicycle commuter, these kinds of events make me take notice. In Portland, walking and biking are popular pastimes, as well as a means of travel. Unfortunately, it is always open season on pedestrians and cyclists for our gallant motorists. Recently, a man in a wheelchair was the victim of a hit and run driver. When apprehended and asked why he didn't stop to help, he replied that he was late for work! Ah, brave new world, where the h*ll are we heading?! Brad the Bus Dodger Tord wrote: > With LiFeP packs I have no issues - they are as safe as the majority > of rechargeable batteries, and better than the packs in a Prius: > they burn like Hell (no joke!). Haven't received any Paddlewise for > quite a few days, by the way, so thanks to you fellas (and ladies) who > send copies of their mails direct! > > Traffic, another modern man's plague: > > Locally, the traffic situation is getting seriously congested, and the > air is getting seriously polluted most of the year, so the > wise guys at the helm of our town has put their thinking caps on: > Too many cars congest and pollute the inner city, so let's build a > chain of toll booths around the city - which at least in London has > worked well. > > So they want to introduce these tolls ASAP, say in 2011. BUT there > are a lot of problems in connection with this: > > 1. A lot of the people traveling into the city comes from surrounding > lesser towns and villages, thus would all need to come by train, and the > train system is stretched close to the limit, as it is, as there never > have > been > so many trains as now, on the existing tracks. The passenger trains > have to compete for room on the tracks with slower goods trains, as > quite a lot of goods are again transported by rail. To improve the > situation > we would need lots of new tracks, which the government-owned > company that lay down the tracks can't do in a jiffy (not enough > money, not enough resources, and then it is all the planning that > needs to be done, the handling of any complaints, and the court cases > that are bound to pop up about whose gardens will be transformed into > tracks, and so on). > > Ah, brave new world, where the h*ll are we heading?! *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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