Most of the cars that seem to block up our local roads are not new at all. Plenty of X and Y plates and even older. Accommodation and living costs are so high round here that most people don't have enough disposable income to buy new cars. Also local bus services have been severely cut, so many people have no choice other than travelling to work by car, especially if they work odd hours. The coalition Government's transport policies don't seem exactly 'joined up'!
Most of the cars that seem to block up our local roads are not new at all. Plenty of X and Y plates and even older. Accommodation and living costs are so high round here that most people don't have enough disposable income to buy new cars. Also local bus services have been severely cut, so many people have no choice other than travelling to work by car, especially if they work odd hours. The coalition Government's transport policies don't seem exactly 'joined up'!
What is racist or bigoted about pointing out that cars get scrapped after a certain number of years?
I should say that on a personal level I do not have any issues with immigrants. I was brought up in the industrial West Midlands where there was already a sizeable West Indian and Indian presence and many of my school and college friends were from these backgrounds. My dear late wife was an immigrant of sorts from Southern Ireland, and at various other times in my life I have had girlfriends from Nigeria, Gibraltar, West Indies and Brazil, plus a few English and Welsh ones. Many of my current friends are immigrants.
Nevertheless the rush hour traffic in Outer London and the surrounding towns has definitely got much worse and goes on for longer than it did four or five years ago. An influx of new immigrants into the area whose children are now attending school and adding to to the school run traffic seems as likely an explanation as any. New cars on the road is a red herring because a similar number of old cars have probably been scrapped in the same period. Reductions in the grants for buses may have had some effect. :mmm:Er.... What you are (were) complaining about is (was) them causing the congestion on the roads at rush hour! A totally ridiculous unsubstantiated (and plainly daft) assertion!
Perhaps you should vote for Ed Miliband then - to get back to topic...
Found any reliable surveys of rush hour traffic yet? Or still simply spouting xenophobic nonsense!
If you increase the UK population from 57 to 64.1 million, over two decades without building extra urban roads, what would you expect the result to be? Please find stats from the Office of National Statistics below, which should not have any journalistic bias.
When I joined my current golf club a bit over 4 years ago, I could normally make the 3.5 mile journey there in no more than 25 minutes, even in the peak of the rush hour. Now it is rarely less than 45 minutes and can take an hour during the rush hour, which incidentally now seems to start a lot earlier. 4 years ago if I left home at 07:30 I could expect to get a clear run, but not now. You can choose to disbelieve me if you want, but these are facts.
