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Originally Posted by Rog
No one in the UK is going to give up their car so long as it is -
1) cheaper
2) simpler
3) easier
- than using public transport. The saddest thing is that the more we come to rely on the car the more industry develops to cater for car uses. It's a negative spiral. This is why tescos are located out-of-town, why all the biggest chains have massive acres of parking spaces and also why our aged population have to pay more for food as they cannot easily travel to cheaper outlets.
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I think you're right there. I don't use the car a great deal because most of my travel is local but whenever I've used a train it has been packed with barely a spare seat to be found. Imagine if cars were off the road, even for a day, the trains would not really provide an alternative because the capacity is simply too low.
So really if a no car day were arranged here for many people it would mean a no travel day instead, although having said that I read recently that the majority of car journey's are 2km or less in distance, so that could easily be walked or cycled.