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Robin May

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Greg Hennessy wrote:

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If you were to believe the CPRE, the SE is currently like
downtown Hong Hong during the rush hour, when the reality
is that approximately 15% of the land within 1 hours
commute of charring cross is built on.

A one hour commute by your favoured mode is only about ten
miles at most. Are you suggesting that there are open fields
within that area?

A one hour journey by car can take one (easily) up to 60 miles
(probably not a lot more, unless one lives adjacent to a
motorway interchange).

You'll have to travel a fair distance from Charing Cross before
you can do anything more than 30mph and even that is pretty
ambitious as an average speed, especially considering the fact
that you'll face congestion and a lot of traffic lights. I'd be
absolutely amazed if you could travel as much as 60 miles. Even
half that seems optimistic.

Who said anything about either living or working at Charing
Cross?

For goodness sake, it's even quoted in your post (and this one).

Charing Cross is mentioned (as the centre of a particular circle
of which 15% is built-up) - but there is no mention or claim of
either *living* or *working* there.

The claim referred to Charing Cross and areas within 1 hour's commute
of it. The reply to that said 1 hour's commute of Charing Cross (the
reference to Charing Cross was left implicit but was nonetheless
perfectly clear) is about 10 miles at most (a little pessimistic
perhaps, but far more realistic than what you went on to say). Your
reply to that was that a one hour journey by car can take a person
"(easily) up to 60 miles". You said that in reply to a post that was
clearly talking about a one hour commute from Charing Cross. If you
fail to see that or the relevance of Charing Cross to all this, there's
nothing I can do other than recommend attending English classes to
improve your reading comprehension.

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