Dave Plowman (News)
Nice snipping.
How to get Chelsea Tractors off the Roads 123Following up to JNugent I think its more with professionals and business than just what the right like to fantasise of as "socialist envy". I see Ken has invited Chavez over from Venezuela to...
It would inhibit the amount of space that can be used for other purposes (like cramming in desks). Catering only for PT-borne pedestrians at a place of work is poor policy, as anyone who experiences the LU (overloaded with people who simply don't have an option) can tell you. We used to have proper policies which militated against it.
However, you are right in one respect - the return to sane town planning in London (perhaps I should have made it clearer that my remarks apply to the whole of the capital, not just the central part. It would also restrict the sheer size of commercial buildings, with their concentration of so many people in a small, inaccessible area. It could not happen overnight; it could only happen in tandem with a mbutt transfer of public sector work out of the capital into the rest of the home counties and the regions of the UK and with a freeing-up of space that would result from it and a reduction in the need to travel into the centre. The exit of large numbers of civil service jobs would also attract away from Central London the service industries that support those jobs, intensifying the effect.
