On Sunday 20 October 2013 15:57 Nightjar wrote in uk.d-i-y:

On 20/10/2013 13:59, Bill Wright wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
On 16/10/2013 15:10, Tim Watts wrote:
On Wednesday 16 October 2013 14:27 Huge wrote in uk.d-i-y:

And this is my problem how, exactly?



It was your problem (or your mother's) when you were 5 ish.

One that my mother solved by teaching me how to behave in and around
traffic.

Colin Bignell


Yes but horses and carts don't go anything like as fast as motor cars.

In late Victorian London, the average speed of traffic was 10 mph.

And the stopping distance was rubbish.

In
2008, the average speed of traffic in central London was 10 mph.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7327651.stm

Colin Bignell
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