"Chris.B" wrote in message
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On Jul 2, 10:15 am, "Giga2" "Giga2" just(removetheseandaddmatthe
wrote:

Maybe this was happening in parts of the US in the 1960s but for most of
that decade most of *western* Europe was still recovering from WW2.

Au contraire, Sunshine. I was growing up in the UK at the time.

=Which is why I was talking about Western Europe more generally. However
even the UK, outside London, there was still very few cars AFAIK until quite
late 60s. And btw you cannot detect Mr and Mrs Jones taking there summer
holiday by car to the Cotwolds in the co2 records lol!

From
commuting to school by bicycle to commuting to work by bicycle from
the early to the late 60s.

=Thank you, late 60s, that is what I was saying???

Motor traffic volume exploded in the 60s as
vast numbers of motorcycles and bicycles were dumped or scrapped. The
dawn chorus on our main road into the city went from solo blackbird to
a continuous roar of nose-to-tail traffic.

=This was London? Yeah late 60s it was starting especially in big cities but
that is hardly western Europe as a whole!?

=OTOH looking at this site (if it is accurate) says there was 10m cars in
the road by 61!
http://www.northyorkshire.police.uk/...?articleid=563