Huge muttered:

On 2006-11-01, magwitch wrote:
Huge muttered:

And it might well work better in London than in many other places, since
most of the people on those trains are office workers.

And most Cambridge commuters aren't?

Calm down. I wasn't getting at you, and I didn't know you were in
Cambridge to start with. And yes, they aren't, or no they are. Or
whichever it is that I agree with you. )

Puzzled. I didn't think you were getting at me.

I'd say it's people commuting into major cities
unnecessarily by car who output one hell of a lot of CO2.

I don't believe that anyone goes anywhere "unnecessarily" for any
reason. All that means is that you don't agree with their reason.
And no-one drives into a city at peak times unless they've a
damn good reason. No-one sane, that is.

So why are there _thousands_ of cars jamming up the roads every morning?
Especially in Cambridge, so many that those trying to get to the station
from outside the city to catch a train to London can't get there. That is
what it was like a few years ago and I doubt whether it's changed.

Just giving drivers a fuel allowance/ration would *force* them to make
alternative arrangements, i.e. car sharing, using the buses etc.