http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: liability - Recent Posts en Sun, 31 May 2026 17:00:46 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18301#post-265059 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 23:43:55 +0000 Rosie 265059@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@crowriver I'll have to get copy.</p> <p>Radio 4's Something Understood yesterday was on the spirituality of the car:-</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09bxjzh" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09bxjzh</a></p> <p>Some good pieces, showing the allure of the speeding cocoon. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18301#post-265057 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 23:38:26 +0000 crowriver 265057@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Interesting book referenced in that article: After the Car by Kingsley Dennis and John Urry, 2009.</p> <p>Can be picked up quite cheaply second hand on fleaBay/Amazorg... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18301#post-265053 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 23:31:35 +0000 Rosie 265053@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@crowriver - mass car ownership does show up the flaws in a free market i.e it requires a lot of collective investment, and is ultimately enslaving. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18301#post-265051 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 23:22:24 +0000 crowriver 265051@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"like taxing the rich and poor for an identical lump sum instead of a percentage of income"</p> <p>You mean the <strike>Community Charge</strike> Poll Tax? Introduced by the same PM who lauded "The Great Car Economy"? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18301#post-265048 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 23:11:01 +0000 Rosie 265048@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes - treating both road users the same is like taxing the rich and poor for an identical lump sum instead of a percentage of income. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18301#post-265040 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 22:12:29 +0000 weezee 265040@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"The idea that the space someone’s car occupies on the road is personal space, where the car is treated as a proxy body with its own right not to be molested, shows just how far this notion of reciprocity has gone."</p> <p>From:<br /> <a href="http://theconversation.com/cars-bicycles-and-the-fatal-myth-of-equal-reciprocity-81034">http://theconversation.com/cars-bicycles-and-the-fatal-myth-of-equal-reciprocity-81034</a> </p>