I find driving a car, especially a well handling, responsive car, to be
almost therapeutic and a great way to relax and enjoy the countryside -
can't put a dollar value on that.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob W-PDML" <p...@web-options.com>
Subject: Re: OT: Woo Hoo!
On 30 Aug 2015, at 10:52, Malcolm Smith <rrve...@virginmedia.com> wrote:
Bob W wrote:
And then there are all the other costs that car ownership entails.
Owning a car is a modern form of slavery. Getting rid of mine was on a
par with giving up smoking as far as feeling liberated is concerned.
[...]t the
practical truth is it is quicker to go from A to B on most local trips by
cycling rather than car (although I need very little persuasion to take
the
cycle!). You can spend as long finding a parking place as it did to drive
there - pointless. [...]
People can get a very warped perception of the so-called benefits of using
a car. I've often been with people who've chosen to drive somewhere when
I've decided to walk or ride, starting from the same place, and I've
arrived there long before they have. This can sometimes be over distances
of several miles, but because the other people have lost the very idea of
leaving the car behind they have also lost the idea of how much it has
crippled them.
My normal commute to work, for example, is 8 miles each way, and cycling
it is quicker than all other forms of transport.
B
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