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There's these things called the trains and the tube in London, which are significantly cheaper than driving a car into work in the middle of London every day. T

There's these things called the trains and the tube in London, which are significantly cheaper than driving a car into work in the middle of London every day. The middle class car owner in London is a myth.

rumanator 6y ago
> There's these things called the trains Those things called the trains connect only consolidated urban centers where, due to their convenience and higher quality of living driving up demand, the cost of living is considerably higher. If you cannot afford to live in one of those places, the only options on the table is a) get a car and endure the obstacle course packed with life-degrading inconveniences to actually hold a decent job, or b) waste even more scarce time of your waking life driving to other mass transit services. So your wage is the same whether you drive to work or drive to a bus or train stop. Great. But public transportation adds easily over 20 minutes each trip to your commute. But that's not a problem, innit? I mean, poor people don't need to spend time with their kids and loved ones. What really matters is if a conceited hipster can ride is bike for 10min eah day to get to work and gloat about how much he is woke and is saving the environment, right? And heavens forbid if that hipster is inconvenienced by having to ride his bicycle on a public road, because that's so unfair to him to the point that it must be a conspiracy by The Man to keep him down.
- avianlyric 6y ago
  None of this changes the fact that there’s a limit to the number of cars you can physically pack into London, and that limit isn’t very high. Putting more cars in increases pollution, and makes it harder to walk and cycle, and reduces the number of people who can safely move around the city. Ultimately if keep adding cars you end up with a situation where cars are the only viable method of moving around the city, and of all the options available to us it’s objectively the worse. Boosting walking and cycling in the centre creates extra capacity on public transport, and non-intuitively creates extra space for people driving into the city as locals won’t be occupying space on the roads. Where I’m living in London household car ownership is about 30%, and the roads already struggle. It’s not like we can build more roads (which would just increase traffic), there’s no physical space to put the damn things in. To top it all off the population is still increasing. So either we can encourage people to use alternative forms of transport, and we build the infrastructure to support it like bike lanes, or what? We just sit in traffic for the rest of our lives? What’s you’re solution to a growing population and in a fixed space?
- Nursie 6y ago
  > Those things called the trains connect only consolidated urban centers... This thread is about London, which has extensive train, bus and underground systems throughout. Driving into London for work is a fool's game.
- vertex-four 6y ago
  I am not talking about random other places, I'm talking about London, which is what this thread is about. I even mentioned it three times in the comment you replied to!
- pjc50 6y ago
  This is a rant. Driving in London is cripplingly slow, you need to pay £11.50 a day to drive in the centre, and parking spaces sell for as much as entire houses in provincial towns. https://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?location_ids=290&prop_type=parking&search_form=map&search_type=SS&submit_type=search&transport_line= https://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?location_ids=290&prop_type=...

rumanator 6y ago

> There's these things called the trains Those things called the trains connect only consolidated urban centers where, due to their convenience and higher quality of living driving up demand, the cost of living is considerably higher. If you cannot afford to live in one of those places, the only options on the table is a) get a car and endure the obstacle course packed with life-degrading inconveniences to actually hold a decent job, or b) waste even more scarce time of your waking life driving to other mass transit services. So your wage is the same whether you drive to work or drive to a bus or train stop. Great. But public transportation adds easily over 20 minutes each trip to your commute. But that's not a problem, innit? I mean, poor people don't need to spend time with their kids and loved ones. What really matters is if a conceited hipster can ride is bike for 10min eah day to get to work and gloat about how much he is woke and is saving the environment, right? And heavens forbid if that hipster is inconvenienced by having to ride his bicycle on a public road, because that's so unfair to him to the point that it must be a conspiracy by The Man to keep him down.

avianlyric 6y ago
None of this changes the fact that there’s a limit to the number of cars you can physically pack into London, and that limit isn’t very high. Putting more cars in increases pollution, and makes it harder to walk and cycle, and reduces the number of people who can safely move around the city. Ultimately if keep adding cars you end up with a situation where cars are the only viable method of moving around the city, and of all the options available to us it’s objectively the worse. Boosting walking and cycling in the centre creates extra capacity on public transport, and non-intuitively creates extra space for people driving into the city as locals won’t be occupying space on the roads. Where I’m living in London household car ownership is about 30%, and the roads already struggle. It’s not like we can build more roads (which would just increase traffic), there’s no physical space to put the damn things in. To top it all off the population is still increasing. So either we can encourage people to use alternative forms of transport, and we build the infrastructure to support it like bike lanes, or what? We just sit in traffic for the rest of our lives? What’s you’re solution to a growing population and in a fixed space?
Nursie 6y ago
> Those things called the trains connect only consolidated urban centers... This thread is about London, which has extensive train, bus and underground systems throughout. Driving into London for work is a fool's game.
vertex-four 6y ago
I am not talking about random other places, I'm talking about London, which is what this thread is about. I even mentioned it three times in the comment you replied to!
pjc50 6y ago
This is a rant. Driving in London is cripplingly slow, you need to pay £11.50 a day to drive in the centre, and parking spaces sell for as much as entire houses in provincial towns. https://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?location_ids=290&prop_type=parking&search_form=map&search_type=SS&submit_type=search&transport_line= https://www.foxtons.co.uk/search?location_ids=290&prop_type=...