Resist privatisation, re-invest in public services eg the post office.
Re-vitalise the high street by opposing landlordism and high rents.
Re-build communities.
Make local shopping a viable alternative to internet shopping.
Oppose gig-economy.
Defend workers rights and sustainable employment.
Oppose globalisation.
Make sustainability and climate change a priority in politics.
Re-think transport infrastructure.
Act now.
Heavily penalise dodgy parking.
Etc etc.
Act now.
That's awesome the recipient would have had to pay extra for someone else to carry that bag across the road for him.This very day, in Worcester, I watched a just eat delivery bloke walk into a Greggs, pick up an order, walk out, cross the road, ring the bell of a flat above a shop, and deliver it.
Probably 60 yards door-to-door, Sunday lunchtime, on one of the main shopping streets in a pleasant, small city.
I don't live a place where just eat and the like are a thing, so I don't know how prevailant this kind of stuff is, but that's not capitalism, or parking, or congestion - it's just being an idle fucker.
Being an idle fucker is a part of this stuff, and it's an attitude that needs addressing in the same way as buying a ridiculously big car that won't fit on your drive, or parking on the zig-zag lines outside school.
This very day, in Worcester, I watched a just eat delivery bloke walk into a Greggs, pick up an order, walk out, cross the road, ring the bell of a flat above a shop, and deliver it.
Probably 60 yards door-to-door, Sunday lunchtime, on one of the main shopping streets in a pleasant, small city.
I don't live a place where just eat and the like are a thing, so I don't know how prevailant this kind of stuff is, but that's not capitalism, or parking, or congestion - it's just being an idle fucker.
Being an idle fucker is a part of this stuff, and it's an attitude that needs addressing in the same way as buying a ridiculously big car that won't fit on your drive, or parking on the zig-zag lines outside school.
Not really! Not even a digressionPossibly an idle fucker. Possibly ill or disabled. There are people for whom the bottom of the stairs is just about doable and 60 yards in public is absolutely out.
Weird digression for a transport thread.
Not really! Not even a digression
It’s a transport issue - a delivery driver didn’t need to use his vehicle to make a delivery.The sausage roll courier walked, right? As Kebabking thinks the unknown recipient should have. So there wasn’t any modal substitution involved in the decision to order rather than to go to Greggs. Ergo, not a transport issue.
Why do you object to someone using the lift to go one floor even when it's down to pure laziness? It would be better for them if they take the stairs but if they wish to remain unfit surely that's a personal choice?It's the problem with calling these things out. I detest our students in my day job who take the lift one floor. But I'd never say a word about it, because you know it would be the one fucking time that it's someone with a hidden disability. Though if all the fuckers that did it had one, we'd have the most disabled student body in the country.
It’s a transport issue - a delivery driver didn’t need to use his vehicle to make a delivery.
And people’s laziness/desire for convenience is extremely relevant to this thread
So?He didn’t use his vehicle.
Are you tripping? How is it not a transport issue?So it’s not a transport issue. We can go round in circles for as long as you like; it’s not burning up any fossil fuels as far as I know.
Are you tripping? How is not a transport issue?
Of course it’s relevant. Not using fossil fuel transport is as relevant to climate change as using it.Because either the customer or the delivery person would have walked. If a person’s shopping journey is replaced by that of a delivery person using the same transport mode as the shopper would have otherwise chosen, the event is irrelevant to emissions or congestion or any other transport problem.
As you would see, plainly, if you were in your right mind.
Of course it’s relevant. Not using fossil fuel transport is as relevant to climate change as using it.
And the customer’s lack of consideration for others and for the environment is extremely relevant.
To drag it, kicking and screaming, back on topic, what is it anyone's business if I buy a Land Rover Disco as my next car? It affects other people, but you know... fuck them. An extreme analogy, but stopping a lift at every fucking floor because you're lazy does affect others. In a more immediate way than my neighbour buying a Canyonero would.Why do you object to someone using the lift to go one floor even when it's down to pure laziness? It would be better for them if they take the stairs but if they wish to remain unfit surely that's a personal choice?
Am I the only person here who is baffled by the direction this has gone?Ah - unless you are assuming that the Just Eat person drove to the Greggs prior to walking to the customer’s flat. But this is a busy high street, from what Kebabking said, so the overwhelming likelihood is that he was strategically positioned on foot between a few nearby foot outlets and his moped.
The sausage roll courier walked, right? As Kebabking thinks the unknown recipient should have. So there wasn’t any modal substitution involved in the decision to order rather than to go to Greggs. Ergo, not a transport issue.
Not all of them are delivering takeaways though (though still the majority). Express grocery deliveries are the next big thing and have exploded in the last year or two. Gorillas and various other independents, and now various supermarkets are offering their own express delivery services.I have been in a number of large cities over the past week and the amount of delivery bikes I saw was insane. Don’t people cook their own dinner or make sarnies for lunch anymore?