Re: Road Safety by Country (was Fuel Efficient Cars)

From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Sat Feb 08 2003 - 15:24:24 MST

  • Next message: Kai Becker: "Re: Road Safety by Country (was Fuel Efficient Cars)"

    Spike:
    > Those nations such as Italy and Babylon, that were invented
    > before there were cars, are set up differently. Ive seen
    > pictures of them, its truly amazing. There are *homes* right
    > down *in* the city with all the businesses and stuff. They
    > needn't drive far. What a concept!

    In the ancient Rome traffic was a real tragedy. Carts, beasts
    everywhere. And no sidewalk was there. And stalls spread
    all over the city. Caesar issued a law to prevent daily traffic,
    from dawn to sunset. Just very important people could
    send their carts for shopping. So later, at night, the traffic
    was constant. So Adrianus issued another law, to prevent
    traffic from sunset to dawn!



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