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As each generation grows up more and more ingrained with the use of a car the likelihood of this happening decreases. Governments would be too frightened to tak
by kerrsclyde 8y ago
As each generation grows up more and more ingrained with the use of a car the likelihood of this happening decreases. Governments would be too frightened to take this away.
My father was the first person in his extended family to own a car, around 60 years ago. Car travel was a luxury. My mother used to go on holiday via train, something that is almost unheard of now in the UK.
At my children's school parents would rather spend the best part of an hour queuing for a car parking space, then queuing to get out of car park rather than go to the effort of walking in much less time.
People seem to be prepared to put up with the madness rather than walk / use public transport.
- treerock 8y agoThere is some evidence that car usage peaked in the 90s and is now dropping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_car https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_car
- ed_balls 8y ago> As each generation grows up more and more ingrained with the use of a car the likelihood of this happening decreases. I doubt it. > Traffic counts suggest that the number of miles cycled in 2017 – 3.27 billion – is around 29% above the figure for 1997. > Cycle use increases have been higher in some urban areas: in London, for example, around 27,000 people cycled across the central London by cycle in 1977 (both directions), compared to 184,000 in 2016 – almost seven times as many.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoPeople will vote for what they believe in even when their own behaviour doesn't live up to those ideals. A member of my family goes on climate change marches yet works for an airline.