Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Alternative to the car? No, surely not.

The following two headings were in yesterday's (7 April) edition of The Dominion Post:

"Roading chaos spurs strategy rethink"

"National slips car crushing into gear"


The first related to worsening road saftey figures in Wellington while the second concerned Police Minister, Judith (Crusher) Collins' plan to crush boy racer's cars.

Unfortunately talk of shifting our transport sector away from the private motor vehicle has been conspicuous in its absence in all of this. It seems our leaders (and newspaper editors for that matter) need to consider what a 'strategy rethink' really entails.

As the often cited quote of Albert Einstein says: "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."

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