Why did the Metropolitan Railway go to Verney Junction?
Graeme Wall wrote:
On 30/08/2012 14:12, Optimist wrote:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:29:51 +0100, Graeme
wrote:
On 30/08/2012 08:57, Optimist wrote:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:00:04 +0100, Roland
wrote:
In , at 07:37:29 on Thu,
30 Aug 2012, Martin remarked:
Unless the UK indulges in another round of building "new
towns", the national housing shortage is actually only
solvable at the local level. In other words build homes where
the people and jobs are, or move the people and jobs.
Unfortunately the policy for most of the country seems to be to
build new estates on largely brownfield and rural sites, in
places where they get the least objection. Correlating it with
workplaces is the last thing on the agenda.
An added irony is that they are often paraded as "eco" towns,
when the residents would all need cars to get to jobs.
The aim of eco-towns is to get car journeys down to 50% of all
trips. I'm not sure if that counts very local trips, but they
should be provided with enhanced public transport in order to
qualify for the name.
Policy should be to get the hundreds of thousands of empty homes
back into use, rather than consuming more countryside.
Very laudable in theory. In practice many of those empty
properties are in areas no one wants to live.
Like central London, you mean? There are loads of houses in the
most expensive areas which have been boarded up and the sanitary
fixtures destroyed to make them uninhabitable.
For "loads" read "some".
NO! Read loads.
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