Brainstorm intro for N. America lecture

This short video message by Eric Britton is intended to open up a creative dialogue concerning ways to organize and support a collaborative brainstorming and outreach tour across North America -- the aim of which is to introduce the latest findings of the Reinventing Transport in Cities program - http://www.invent.newmobility.org - of the New Mobility Agenda to cities, public sector agencies, universities, consultants and the research community, and to individual citizens and public interest groups concerned with transportation policy and practice across the North American continent. The cutting edge of this project is the positive link to the three-horned challenges of oil dependence and prices, climate degradation, and the long overdue reforms need to improve transport system efficient, quality of life and economic well-being in our cities. For further background on this you are invited to go to http://www.dialogues.newmobility.org. Or to contact the speaker at eric.britton@newmobility.org.«

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[Macrocompassion]

The use to which transport systems will be put, will change and the greater use of public transport (basically more efficient that private cars) will become normal. In particular the one-person car (which requires 1 ton of metal, plastic and glass to accompany the traveller) should be replaced with smaller and more efficient means, such as by walking, cycling ( and the extro-skelintinal devices currently in development for the armed forces.

[Macrocompassion]

For many years we have been warned of the limited quantities of petroelum in the world and that one day these supplies will stop. This process is at last beginning to be felt with the suppliers becoming aware that their product can command greater peices and simultaneously get used in a more economical fashion. This is a natural process for which as I see it there is no need for anybody least of all you or Al Gore to try to make changes.