XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: robban@clubtelco.com   
      
   On 15/01/2014 3:54 am, Your Name wrote:   
   > In article , Greg Goss   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> "J. Clarke"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> In article , robban@clubtelco.com   
   >>> says...   
   >>   
   >>>> In fact, towards the end of the 19th century the traffic situation with   
   >>>> horse-drawn vehicles was as bad if not worse than today. There are a few   
   >>>> photographs and drawings around of grid lock in London and elsewhere.   
   >>>> Road accidents were also very common. No speedometers or speed limits   
   >>>> back then.   
   >>>   
   >>> And Christopher Reeve would have told you that horses are not   
   >>> particularly safe.   
   >>   
   >> As could Pierre Curie's widow.   
   >   
   > Horse travel is just as safe as any other form of transport - people   
   > have died using any of them.   
   >   
      
   Very few people die from walking accidents, but I suppose that isn't   
   transport. Come to think of it, it takes a lot of pedestrians to create   
   the equivalent of a traffic jam, but I suppose a crush is just as   
   dangerous as a crash.   
      
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