In message , Robin May
writes

So it's O.K. for you to travel, but not others, or are you going
to lead by example and stay within walking distance of your home
all of your life?

It's completely obvious that's not what he means. It's true that people
use their cars too much. It's ridiculous that people think it's ok to
commute 50 or 100 or whatever miles to work each day in a car with only
one person in it. Obviously people have to get to places some distance
away from their home but there's no need for them to be so ridiculously
far away just so some rich **** can live in a quiet little village.

It's also true that a new road doesn't just relieve congestion. If you
build a new motorway the cars don't just magically appear on it, they
have to go over other roads to get there. And so other roads become
more congested because they're feeding this new motorway. So what's the
solution, make the roads feeding the motorway bigger? Then you have to
make the roads feeding the roads feeding the motorway bigger, and so
on. The solutions to these problems are a lot more complex than just
building more and bigger roads.
Don't agree. As has already been pointed out here before, France
doesn't have such a problem even with higher car ownership, because they
have a better road infrastructure. The answer is not to try and tax
people off of the roads, but give them the roads for which they pay.
Before you berate me, I am a pro-rail public transport person but I live
in part of the country with bad roads and worse public transport.
(West Cumbria.)
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Clive