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[aaronjb]

Can't see it happening. By 'pay third world people' you mean pay third world governments, and we all know how that ends up.

I googled "Corrupt third-world dictator" to post a picture as an example, but there were too many to choose from, so I gave up.

[Varche]

Difficulty stating. Pure and simple. Too difficult so lets not bother.

It applies right down to individuals. Shall I walk or save time and use the car.?

Encouraging to see that the previous record for planting trees in a day was 50 million by India around three years ago. Ethiopia of all countries just planted 350 million indigenous trees out of a 3 or 4 billion ( cannot remember which) target in a day.  With help from the first world imagine what could be done around rhe world.

Footnote. You could have knocked me over with a feather when a TV programme said that nearly a half of the worlds oxygen is produced by plankton. Maybe the Japs are right to exterminate whales eating all our oxygen creating plankton!

[TheBoy]

It applies right down to individuals. Shall I walk or save time and use the car.?

The vast majority of commuters cannot walk to the station.  That's why they moved out of the shitholes we call UK cities. They wanted country living. Which means driving to the nearest town to catch a train.  My nearest viable station is 14 miles away by car (there is one about 8 or 9 miles away, one that Beaching let get away)

[Kevin Wood]

It applies right down to individuals. Shall I walk or save time and use the car.?

The vast majority of commuters cannot walk to the station.  That's why they moved out of the shitholes we call UK cities. They wanted country living. Which means driving to the nearest town to catch a train.  My nearest viable station is 14 miles away by car (there is one about 8 or 9 miles away, one that Beaching let get away)

Exactly - we're putting up rabbit hutches in the middle of nowhere as fast as we can, with no requirement to connect them to any form of transport infrastructure, then worrying why our roads are gridlocked and we keep getting a slap on the leg from the EU for our carbon emissions.

[Varche]

Point taken about where houses are in relation to work.

However how many people drive around looking for a parking spot near where they are going rather than get out at the first not so close parking spot and walking a bit?. Or drive somewhere to avoid a bit of walking.

Time , rightly or wrongly is viewed as everything. Every minute saved is another available for Love Island or playing fortnite etc.

[Raeturbo]

Plus many houses are being built in places where there’s no infrastructure to support them I.E either facing droughts or floods!

[Kevin Wood]

Yep,  they had to demolish a new development near here a few years back because building it on a flood plain turned out to be an issue.

[Lizzie Zoom]

Yep,  they had to demolish a new development near here a few years back because building it on a flood plain turned out to be an issue.

Yes, you have to be careful where you build in Watercress land!

[aaronjb]

However how many people drive around looking for a parking spot near where they are going rather than get out at the first not so close parking spot and walking a bit?

If you want to park within a mile or two of the local station, here, then you either:

1) Pay £9 per day to park in the station car park (which is full after about 8am)
2) Pay £50/month to park on the street, as that area of town is permit holders only and they sell permits as "season ticket parking"

The reason the station car park is full, apparently, is because there are no traffic wardens there (there are on the streets, though!), so everyone just parks there and doesn't bother paying...


I live in the town, 3 miles from the station, and my options are:

1) 10 minutes drive in my own car
2) 45 minutes by foot & bus
3) 50 minute walk

Guess which one I'd pick?

[Varche]

That is just lack of “ policing” and a none joined up transport policy.

Quite some years ago we were friends with some quite left wing councillors in Leicester. They had responsibility for matters transport . Neither were car drivers or had any intention of ever being. We lost touch but often wonder what they are doing now.

[Doctor Gollum]

That is just lack of “ policing” and a none joined up transport policy.

Quite some years ago we were friends with some quite left wing councillors in Leicester. They had responsibility for matters transport . Neither were car drivers or had any intention of ever being. We lost touch but often wonder what they are doing now.

Presumably waiting to cross the road...