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DarkDoc posted...

It's easier to drive a longer distance if there are no other cars going the same way as you. Again, if I ran the transport department, I'd give everybody 3 months to learn, and then sack anybody who didn't have a driving license, because a driver would know this.

If everyone has to drive longer distances, there's more likely to be more cars going the same way as you. If people can walk or take other non car methods of transport, there's less likely to be cars going the same way as you because there are less cars on the road to begin with.

But everybody is different, so they don't all want to do the same stuff.

I can't decide if it's a really good idea or a really bad idea to have both football and cricket at Old Trafford. They're not played at the same time, so you only have to build one set of infrastructure and it covers both...

People generally need the same amenities no matter where you live. Luxuries can vary from person to person, just like they do in walkable towns today.

Just make fuel cheaper.

Like, driving is already cheaper than the train if there are 2 people or more.

How do you make fuel cheaper?

Trains in the UK are unusually expensive and a poor point of comparison. It is a great demonstration of the idea that people aren't inherently drivers or train users, they'll choose the cheapest method of transport. It would be more feasible as well as more beneficial to bring down the cost of trains than it would be to reduce fuel costs.

I read an article a couple of days ago saying that since the pandemic, the average commuting distance has tripled from 10 miles to 30 miles. They didn't mention where, so I'm assuming USA.

It would seem people are happy to travel a longer distance.

Happy, or have no choice? The working class doesn't exactly have tons of power...

Oh, so you're simply anti-Tory. Got you.

Do you believe the Tories have been making good use of public funds?

Weak answer. Somebody else has to pay, just not you? That's the classic dodge from people who can't make difficult decisions.

We have hard evidence that these people are paying a lower effective tax rate than those who earn less. The whole system is set up in such a way that they can get out of paying their taxes. I don't see why it's unreasonable to ask them to do what poorer people are already doing. If I was in power, I wouldn't even start by raising rates or making a new bracket, I'd just close loopholes.

I live in a rural area. I work in another rural area. Hardly anybody else lives or works in these areas, and there's nothing major in between. Perhaps twice a year there's a freak occurrence where everything is jammed because somebody jumped off a bridge or something, but on the whole I'm very satisfied.

I live in what would be considered a suburb and work in a business park on a different side of my town. I can take 2 different bus routes in case of an issue with one of them, but I could also drive, or cycle using dedicated cycle infrastructure for most of the way. There's pretty much every manner of business along the way. We don't get giant gridlocks like you've described.