On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:15:49 +0000 (UTC), Brimstone was popularly supposed to have said:
Practical test infoYes, you can take whatever car you want, but it you have to provide a mirror for the test guy, also you have to be insured to drive the...
One problem now is that the housing market and the need for a stable base for children to grow up in effectively ties people down to one home base, but the "Flexible Labour Market" so beloved of this government means that you cannot move house to right next to where you work, because you might not work there for very long.
Then there is the fact that cities aren't nice places to live. People don't like 'em, so move to suburbs and commuter zones, to get away from the city and commute in to the place of work. Cure inner-city blight and you cure this phenomenon to a certain extent.
Speed cameras do cause jamswww.guardian.co.uk-transport-Story-0,2763,1436617,00.html Mark Townsend, transport correspondent Sunday March 13, 2005 The Observer Speed cameras are a key contributor to Britain's traffic...
Then you have political ideologies. Rather than solve a problem effecitvely, on a case-by-case basis, politicians prefer to work from a blanket premise of "Foo is The One True Way" and shoehorn the solution onto every problem.
northern drivers....the worst 5287on 15-03-2005, Brimstone supposed : Very much so.... In the absence of any better high visibility signal to offer priority at a sensible distance away, I will continue to...
So, Socialist leftie governments want to won and control everything. Right-wing conservatives want companies to do all this, and a free market to regulate it. New Labour wants to control absolutely everything AND fiddle with companies to impose an illusory free market. None of the strategies above works really well.
Staunch Conservative that I am, I should be advocating free markets right now. I won't, because free markets do not work where public transport is concerned. The only way to run a truly public transport system is for the state to wholly own it (with an Act of Parliament to prevent it being sold of al la Tories), and to run it effectively at a monetary loss to offset the other costs of NOT having an effective public transport system.
In the interim before our politicians tire of eroding civil liberties and chasing phantom persons, and grow brains; in this interim better motorways will have to do as a poor but necessary alternative.
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