Cyril Haearn wrote:What about riding in a vehicle as a passenger, does anyone like or dislike that?
Depends.... some drivers I am quite happy with, there are others I will nougat in a car with
Cyril Haearn wrote:What about riding in a vehicle as a passenger, does anyone like or dislike that?
mjr wrote:No. I wouldn't miss it if it wasn't useful any more. It's bizarre our society is currently configured to expect so many to do it so much. There's better things we could be doing instead of chauffeuring ourselves.
pwa wrote:Fact is, if you have a partner and you both have places of work to get to, and those places of work change from time to time, you can no longer conveniently choose to live close to your work or even on a bus route that gets you to work easily. Cars are part of that way of living.
mjr wrote:pwa wrote:Fact is, if you have a partner and you both have places of work to get to, and those places of work change from time to time, you can no longer conveniently choose to live close to your work or even on a bus route that gets you to work easily. Cars are part of that way of living.
So can we change it, or are you just posting to say abandon all hope, all ye who enter Britannia?
mjr wrote:pwa wrote:Fact is, if you have a partner and you both have places of work to get to, and those places of work change from time to time, you can no longer conveniently choose to live close to your work or even on a bus route that gets you to work easily. Cars are part of that way of living.
So can we change it, or are you just posting to say abandon all hope, all ye who enter Britannia?
pete75 wrote:mjr wrote:pwa wrote:Fact is, if you have a partner and you both have places of work to get to, and those places of work change from time to time, you can no longer conveniently choose to live close to your work or even on a bus route that gets you to work easily. Cars are part of that way of living.
So can we change it, or are you just posting to say abandon all hope, all ye who enter Britannia?
Britain isn't that high up the world league table for vehicle ownership https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... per_capita particularly in comparison with other so called advanced nations. High ownership appears more related to the wealth of a nation rather than how good it's public transport is. For example Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands have much better public transport networks than the UK. All have higher vehicle ownership. All are wealthier. It seems that if people can afford to buy cars they will.