motorists have ruined england!

[Shebeen]

Here Here, well worth the read!!

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11064416/Motorists-have-ruined-England-and-they-need-to-pay-the-price.html

I love London in August. I never go away. To take a holiday in August is to miss the city at its very best. Unlike capitals further south, London has decent weather in the dog days of summer. What’s more, the August exodus means our great city actually works. You can hail a taxi immediately and then drive, unimpeded, from one side of the city to the other. You can walk off the street into a good restaurant and be offered a choice of tables. The parks feel like the countryside. It’s a peculiarly brief, British version of la dolce vita.

The single biggest joy, though, is the lack of traffic. Sometimes you can cross roads without being sworn at. It’s absolutely wonderful. So wonderful in fact that, come the car-choked Hades of September, I find myself thinking: what if we could keep London like this all year round?

We could if we wanted to. In fact, we could go a long way towards solving the traffic problems of all Britain’s congested hell-holes if we wanted to. If I were a benign dictator, I could halve your journey time to work tomorrow. I could also ramp up spending on public transport and cycle and pedestrian infrastructure. I could have your kids breathing cleaner air. I could probably lay on a free submarine shuttle with a champagne bar on the Thames, if that’s what people wanted.

[GaryvdM]

Really good arguments!

[Vetseun]

The ANC have ruined South Africa