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The unmentioned additional consequence of the end of the sub-compact car – unmentioned probably because both the author and his sources find it unpalatable – is that people will buy fewer cars. This is already happening in Europe’s bigger cities where household car ownership has been reducing for some time. Population growth in cities – London may get up to 11 million by 2030 – means that even current rates of reduction in household car ownership will still mean worse congestion. This will just steepen the rate of reduction of household car ownership. More aggressive forms of road space reallocation – to bus priority, bikes and pedestrians – will further tighten the drop.
The statistic about plane crashes – 100,000 fatalities in 100 years, versus 1.2 million fatalities a year in road traffic accidents – is fascinating but I can’t find any corroborating evidence. I can’t find the original graph on the source website. But reasonably reliable sources suggest 83,000 fatalities in air crashes since 1970