| Topic: | Re:Re:Less than 10% of us drive to the High St | |
| Posted by: | Tom Pike | |
| Date/Time: | 16/01/20 09:15:00 |
| The report covers how people visitors to London’s high streets get there, and it’s very much not by car. If you want to encourage more people to use cars to get to their high streets, you’ll make congestion, pollution and pedestrian safety worse, and for minimal benefit: a 10% increase in visitors by car means less than a 1% increase in visitors to our high streets. For London, at least, the numbers just don’t stack up, and indeed our high streets by their basic geometry were never designed to accommodate any significant numbers of visitors by car. As the report makes clear, encouraging people to drive to do their shopping in London will only lead to emptier high streets. Most of us are within a 10 minute walk of our high streets, so active transport and more people on our high streets go hand in hand. |