Jim Millen wrote: > > I completely agree, from my extremely limited experience of the USA, > that you guys would be pretty screwed if deprived of your motor > vehicles. I have no idea whether there is any realistic way to change > this situation, so I guess cars are probably going to remain the > primary means of transport for the forseeable future. It's a lot more common in the West where we have so much more space between where we are and where we want to go. How many states the size of Wyoming are needed to have the population of the UK? Heck, people walk across the UK for fun!