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Anecdotal sample from my village just outside Zone 6 (but inside M25): every single one of my neighbours has 2 cars, some have 3 (or 4). Basically every adult o
by short_sells_poo 2y ago
Anecdotal sample from my village just outside Zone 6 (but inside M25): every single one of my neighbours has 2 cars, some have 3 (or 4). Basically every adult or young-adult member of the household who has to go somewhere on their own has a car. You could argue that they don't need that many, but take it this way: the reliability of the UK train network has become absolutely disgraceful. They are either on strike, or if they are not striking, then they are doing engineering works, and if neither of those are happening, then there is a major disruption. This means that in the last 6 months, I think there have been 2-3 weeks perhaps where the connection into London was reliable.
Unless you have a car, you are completely hosed.
- reedf1 2y agoYes, that tracks with my experience too. I've found some evidence to back up our anecdotal experience here: https://centreforlondon.org/blog/car-ownership-census/ https://centreforlondon.org/blog/car-ownership-census/
- gadders 2y agoNot to mentioned the cost of using the train vs driving.
- short_sells_poo 2y agoI skipped over this issue, but it's absolutely right. Train tickets are ridiculously expensive - to the degree that it's cheaper to drive into town and then pay the parking. And for this price you get absolutely abysmal service. I don't know where public transport has gone wrong in the UK, but it is truly catastrophic even compared to the post-soviet bloc countries in Europe. In fact, those tend to have much better public transport these days.
- reedf1 2y agoI have some privately collected analysis that there is large scale fraud of their already poor performance metrics. It's an open scandal.
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