The Daily Blog Open Mic – 13th July 2025
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Further to the piece I put up on trains and the importance of a rail network yesterday 12 July.
Here is one giving facts and an overview about roads and motorways.
https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/how-much-does-your-road-weigh
3 June 2025 By Nelo Magalhães
The ways roads are used, with ever larger and heavier vehicles, have dramatic consequences on the environment – and electric cars are not the answer
Today, there is an average of 37 tonnes of road per inhabitant of the planet. The weight of the road network alone accounts for a third of all construction worldwide, and has grown exponentially in the 20th century. There is 10 times more bitumen, in mass, than there are living animals. Yet growth in the mass of roads does not automatically correspond to population growth, or translate into increased length of road networks. In wealthier countries, the number of metres of road per inhabitant has actually fallen over the last century. In the United States, for instance, between 1905 and 2015 the length of the network increased by a factor of 1.75 and the population by a factor of 3.8, compared with 21 for the mass of roads. Roads have become wider and, above all, much thicker. To understand the evolution of these parameters, and their environmental impact, it is helpful to trace the different stages in the life of the motorway. …
There is a time for all purposes; a time to think, a time to resolve, a time to decide, to stop the discussion and act accepted and accompanied by the rational population, concerned about outcomes and the future.
Great, may music and esprit de corps keep Kiwis together while young enough to find ways to combine and commit to each other in generosity of spirit and action embracing the tolerant and principled,, and survive what the old and rotten system has left them.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/566752/new-zealand-youth-choir-wins-top-award