Originally Posted by
Macca
What would be even more efficient is a society where no-one needs to travel distances very often. One where you can walk to the shops, walk to work, walk to school because it is all within half a mile of your house. Effectively the exact set-up we used to have until they decided to change it all.
Exactly. We have created a car-dependant world. We need to say "Right this isn't working, lets go back to the point before it started going wrong". The current set up penalises town centre shops with all the parking restrictions and stupidly high council taxes, while Amazon can turn over billions and somehow pay next to bugger all taxes.
Bring the big stores back into the town centres, and the out of town stores and warehouses could be given to whichever farmers they originally bought the land from. Make nice big cow sheds and barns.
And let's have an efficient and keenly priced public transport system.
One of my dad's most often recited gripes is when driving form Preston to Chorley one morning, he saw coming in the opposite direction a Chorley-based plumber's van, probably headed to Preston. I see where he's coming form with this - we should make better use of local businesses. My brother buys his windows and doors from a firm in Manchester, who deliver it to him. He saves a bit of money, but if ever there is something missing or faulty he has to drive to Manchester or wait for the next delivery. I buy mine from a local firm, and although I pay a little more, We have a good relationship with mutual trust, plus if there's ever a problem they are a few minutes away, not an hour on the motorway (each way!)
There's an assumption that 'the new way' has to be better than the old, otherwise why change it? We just have to accept that sometimes we may get it wrong.
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