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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!y3g2000vbh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <947bab2c-ceb5-4379-8288-5d4aa1e5d3aa@y3g2000vbh.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Government Could Raise Speed Limit Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:18:23 -0700 (PDT) References:  <8u7gpmFpncU1@mid.individual.net> <6e3846fc-6b4e-4292-aa56-26a1588c4492@q14g2000vbf.googlegroups.com> Lines: 31 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1300191503 2457 127.0.0.1 (15 Mar 2011 12:18:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:18:23 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y3g2000vbh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2635 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:802464

On Mar 15, 8:17=A0am, Simon Mason  wrote: > On Mar 14, 9:48=A0pm, Tony Raven  wrote: > > > Derek C  wrote: > > > Isn't time also a finite resource? =A0Driving from London to Scotland > > > takes for ever driving =A0at 70 mph. > > > Takes a lot less time on the train at 125mph. =A0Less time than it take= s to > > drive to Manchester. Plus you can read, snooze, watch a movie, eat or > > whatever on the way rather than just sitting there holding a steering > > wheel. > > I thought you could read, snooze, watch a movie and eat in a car as > well?

You can if you're not driving. And you can snooze better in the knowledge that you won't be carried beyond your destination if oversleep, and there won't be some weirdo staring at you when you sleep or some git trying to nick your stuff....

If it's OK to want private space at home, why is it suddenly so awfully selfish and unsustainable to want the same thing on the move?

> I saw a cabbie with an ipod propped up on his dashboard watching > cricket the other day and eating and reading are very commonplace as > is falling asleep at the wheel.

Falling asleep at the wheel is "very commonplace"? Ah, that explains why I'm constantly having to dodge cars as they veer randomly off the road....