From an article in late January in the London Times entitled "Transport experts have seen the future, and it's got pedals", the British government's science thinktank "Foresight" tells us that:

The right to travel when and where we please will be eroded over the next 50 years as the shortage of cheap oil and environmental concerns force us to lead more local lives.

It's something that cyclists have known for a while, and anyone who takes up biking to work realizes quickly - that the autocentric world that advocates paving over everything green and then using up all the oil in the world to drive machines all over that pavement will probably not be here forever, either due to environmental collapse, or oil industry collapse.

It was beautiful in Toronto yesterday, and biking home I only had to use sign-language on one dumb driver, who nearly knocked me off my bike passing me (the empty lane beside him wasn't up to his standards, I guess), and then took offense at my gestures and stopped at the next stop light pulled all the way right into the gutter, so I couldn't pass, I assume? I laughed at him as I passed him on the left. Bikes don't have the passing limitations cars do.

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