| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Boris releases schematic of the Hammersmith fly-under | |
| Posted by: | Thomas Barry | |
| Date/Time: | 11/02/15 08:47:00 |
| "once they start earning decent wages and get onto the housing ladder (now mid-30's?), they'll likely take up driving again." Need to challenge this one - the idea that young people will earn enough to buy a place to live in London and run a car will strike Generation Rent as rather fanciful. Some will, of course, move out of London in order to buy a place, but that merely means they'll be replaced by another generation of non-driving younger people. In any case levels of home ownership are declining due to the generational theft perpetrated by the baby boomer generation, and it's rather ironic for that generation to pretend that it isn't happening and that the victims of that theft will somewhere down the line reverse the process (how? You own all the bloody houses and are sitting on the profits and vote for governments that perpetuate this). The temptation to think that today's young people are essentially like you is to be avoided, really. The reasons for decline in car use are also not provably economic anyway, as levels of carless households are up everywhere, even in richer parts of the city, and levels of car use are lowest in the centre where only the really rich will be able to live soon. "then I will take advantage" So we need road pricing, then, or at the very least explicit roadspace reallocation to public transport and cycling (which is essentially what's happened anyway). |