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August 30th 12, 04:56 PM
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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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