Re: Rogue petrol could put 400,000 off the road.
- From: Adrian <toomany2cvs@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 03 Mar 2007 10:12:00 GMT
Doug (jagmad@xxxxxxxxxx) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :
that a car off the road under these circumstances could
inconvenience the motorist for several days, unlike train journeys!
Trains inconvenience me every single day of the week and have done
for decades on account of the fact that they do not go to where I
need to go at the time I need to go there. Conveniently, my car does.
The reason they don't go where you want them to go is because they
have been ousted by people like you and mass car use. We have
witnessed the wholescale elimination of branch lines and rural bus
services all because of the car
No, because they weren't economically viable - because very few people used
them.
The Beeching cuts were, let me remind you, in the 60s. The car use you
complain about has grown rapidly far more recently than that.
Trains have *never* gone between here and where I go most weekdays. There
has *never* been a station nearer to either location than there is now, nor
has there been a more convenient interchange to get between this line and
that line than there is now.
You'd rather I did a 60 mile round trip into London and back than 20 miles
by road? What was that about hypermobile frivolity?
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