Again define NEED, clearly I don't need a car in the same way I need oxygen, water or food or even clothing and shelter but the lifestyle I have, where I live and the job I do would be impossible for me to do without a car. So to me I need a car to the extent where I am willing to bear the not inconsiderable cost of running it.
Yes, you need a car because of the choices you've made. Therefore it's a choice.
Absolutely wouldn't argue with you, it's my choice and I have made it, I'm quite happy with it too and wouldn't deny it to anyone else.
My nearest shop is 15km away.
and it impacts others. With the right restrictions & nudges you can be helped to make better choices
You've chosen to live there. It's a choice.
Again, it's not about restricting ownership just how & where they are used to decrease the damage and impact on others.
Living in cities is detrimental to people's mental and physical health. Moving away from cities is what we should be aiming for, not into them.and it impacts others. With the right restrictions & nudges you can be helped to make better choices
Where have you got that from? Cities are far better for the environment, for a start you don't have to drive 15km to do your shopping.
Rather doubt it, I feel I've made the best (indeed only realistically practical) choice for me. The kind of nudges that would encourage me to give up my car would be ruinously expensive for society as a whole and would be better spent on other things that would be of greater benefit to the community (which I am all in favour of). Any restrictions that would severe enough to drive me into giving up mine would result in whatever petrol was left being used to publicly burn anti-car campaigners and XR protesters alive in town squares before it would be effective in its desired aims.and it impacts others. With the right restrictions & nudges you can be helped to make better choices
The mental health bit? This thread, mostly.
It was very consistent for the 16years shown there before sat navs. Also, it's not something we just have to accept.
Surely that's more an argument for the abolition of sat navs?
You will pry my satnav out of my cold dead hands. The current car has got one built in but the reason I bought one in the first place was when we took Son Q to Open Day at Leeds Uni. I spent almost as long driving around trying to find my way out of Leeds as I did coming home, definitely did some unnecessary polluting that day.
Why abolish anything?
The congestion charge has had a really great effect on central London hasn't it! Just shows why we need an M25 wide one.
www.bbc.com
Why abolish anything?
I see why the drivers on this thread find these things threatening. It's difficult to have to realise that you are causing harm & LTNs are slightly counter intuitive and can be hard for some to understand. I think supporters of these schemes need to be patient and help people by explaining them and you all we get there eventually.
How city life affects your health and happiness
Links between urban pollution and respiratory diseases drive most calls to clean our cities’ air. But the effect on our lungs is only one reason to be concerned by city living.
It's weird that you would question something so blatantly obvious, yet not even remotely surprising.
