How far would you reckon that is then? the upper limit on shops being within practical cycling distance.
More than the median number in a family with kids. As for cycleways, we do have an extensive road network in Dundee. Much like any other town really. Roads tend to be quiet. Its the cars that make most of the noise (and the odd drunken pedestrian.) Funny thing is, when you have people actually accepting everyone on the road, then it removes a lot of frustration, speeds the average journey up and makes for a happier place to live.
Luck is one of those things you make for yourself. I was moving (internationally) and specifically set criteria for where (and how) I wanted to live. I don't earn a big salary, only a small amount more than the median family income so it isn't as if I am some high powered job either.
Not my fault that far too many people drive stupidly short distances...
Not the point as it is a shift in the point of funding. Would you prefer to pay indirectly or at point of use? which is fairer? Should I, who contribute nothing to congestion, subsidise my work colleague who lives closer than me yet drives (yes he is perfectly fit and able bodied) to park?
Because one is open to all and the other is a special interest group wingeing about not getting special facilities provided for them at others expense?
You do? how does that happen then? Is it because you are subsidising the cost of motoring? I thought you were arguing the public make a profit out of motorists. Do explain please how this convoluted mathematics works.
Lack of motorways is not an excuse for antisocial behaviour.
Go on then, as long as you pay *all* the costs. You might find it hard to come up with the necessary finance, or to recoup the costs of land purchase, let alone building the road.
I don't think you have any idea what a public good is.
Interesting.. I should have to get a private chauffeur to cross the road because you want to drive without respect for anyone else. Not a surprising atbreastude but strangely unworkable. As long as I'm all right, never mind the disenfranchised.
It is a road tax in the way that a terrier is a kennel.
Not emotional, merely semantic.
It is a tax on motor vehicle ownership, under certain conditions.
Use shop in the sense of 'commercial enbreasty'.
I suppose next you'll be arguing that if you pay VED for your vehicle (and meet the other conditions re. MOT-insurance) then you can take it on any public highway.
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