Now here's an idea, ban cars basically

[400bhp]

Far and away my fondest memory of the TdF in Yorkshire - riding the closed-to-traffic A61 Leeds to Harrogate. Absolutely brilliant.

Nowt but other bikes - from freaked-out racing guys, to kids on stabilisers, via family groups herding half a dozen kids (ineffectively, but who cared!), a couple (dad on a tandem with disabled son, and mum), and an elderly grandmother very obviously out for the first time on a bike in MANY years. Oh, we had to dodge football games and cricket matches in the Leeds stretch.

Mile after mile ... of bliss.

Still think that closing one such road in Yorkshire, just for one day every summer, would have been an appropriate TdF legacy.

I did the same. What a great day. We watched the finish about 2 miles outdside Harrogate because it vwas absolutely packed. It was lovely to see the locals actually talking to each other and having a bit of frientdly banter across both sides of the road.

 

[albion]

They got rid of inefficient vacuum cleaners to save energy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41119355

A logical next stop is cars above 1 litre or all cars that do 0 to 60 in less than 10 seconds.
Road mentality needs to change so getting rid of excess power is it.