----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Walkden Subject: Re[2]: Tiny Cars
> > seems to me you should be getting your politicians to fix the > potholes! Unfortunately, we can't seem to get them to do anything thatmight be considered worthwhile..... > > I saw some statistics quoted for the UK recently which showed the total > cost to the taxpayer of transporting all our goods by road in heavy lorries > rather than by rail, and an enormous part of it was down to repairing the > damage these things do to the roads. I saw this for myself recently when a > big lorry drove over the pavement (sidewalk) near my house, and all the paving > stone jus crumbled beneath its wheels, or were forced up into tent-like > structures when the bollards were uprooted. It sounds as though if this had > happened in Canada it would have been left that way and everybody > would have sold their minis and bought tanks to deal with it... Unfortunately, that's the situation we are in here. I got tired of it after wrecking my 3rd car on "paved" streets, and bought a vehicle more able to handle things. Around here, it's pretty difficult to keep things in good repair anyway, we have heavy clay laden soil which is prone to frost heaving, the bedrock is about 4km from the surface, and we get long really cold spells. Probably just about the worst conditions imaginable for road building, other than muskeg. William Robb
