The detrimental effects of the motorised system are catalogued. The car cannot be treated as an isolated consumer article. It supports an extensive infrastructure including chemical and metal suppliers, construction companies, filling stations, repair operations, traffic police, hospitals, courts, insurance, car lobby associations and scrap dealers. The environmentally friendly car will not be feasible, technical improvements are outweighed by the mass effect. A fundamental new direction in traffic policy is essential. Such an environmentally tolerable transport policy in towns must in the first instance support pedestrians. Secondly conditions for the use of cycles must be improved. Thirdly public transport should be discussed as an intensive, integrated concept orientated towards supporting walking and cycling. This integrated system of pedestrian ways, cycle networks and public transport should be so conceived that it does not complement motorised traffic but replaces it. In reclaiming streets in this fashion space allocated to cars is reduced to less than half and no parking spaces allocated in the town centre.
Abstract