Huge wrote:
Chris Tolley writes:

Paul Weaver wrote:

forced to risk a dangerous night bus

That's nonsense, and you know it. Night buses may be less than ideal,
but they are not per se dangerous. We don't live in a US movie dystopia.

You are starting with the unproven assumption that transport is
necessary at all. People do not generally *have to* live so far from
their place of employment. The main reason that there is transport
congestion is that there are too many people on the move. They may have
all sorts of reasons for choosing to live and work where they do, but in
our society, that's exactly what it is in the vast majority of cases, a
choice.


Jesus Christ but you're dumb. How do people as dumb as you achieve
adiulthood?

A Person chooses to live in place A but to live in place B. Very few of
us are obligated in where we work and where we live so very few of us
have no choice in planning our daily travel. While the example of nurses
at the Chelsea and Westminster is slightly extreme in that there is very
little affordable housing within walking distance of that bit of the
Fulham Road - it is disingenuous to say that there is none.

If you can choose, you have different options. Commuting is a lifestyle
choice, same as what make your TV is, which supermarket you buy your
groceries from and which newspaper you buy in the morning. People choose
to live some distance from their work, it is not thrust upon them by
some dictat from the government.

If a nurse decides that they cannot safely or economically work at a
hospital in the congestion charging zone, I'm sure that they'll be able
to find work in countless other hospitals around the country. If that
hospital suffers longer term trouble because of it, I'm sure we can rely
on the press to highlight the causes. Meantime there are several night
buses that go directly outside the Chelsea and Westminster hospital to
cheaper parts of town (where more normal people live) - and in barely
less time than it would take to drive and certainly cheaper.