motoring.co.uk: "If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em"

Vroom to the web site

"Take a long hard look at the photograph above. That's your future. Can’t see yourself as one of those on a bicycle? In that case you’ll be the one stuck behind them in your car.

"Cities are back in fashion, and pretty much all of the experts agree that most people on this finite planet of ours will be living cheek by city jowl with many others within a generation. The urban motorway, like Watney's Red Barrel, is a relic of the 1970s. There will be no new roads bulldozed through any British city. We've got to sweat the existing assets and that means squeezing a growing number of people down the same highways.

"No city on earth believes the answer to future mobility is more cars. Whether you like it or not, the future will see ever greater restrictions on the use of privately owned motor cars in central business districts."