Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 12:06:12 on Thu, 2
Nov 2006, Tony Bryer remarked:
If it cost you £4 a mile to travel, would you use teh car toi
opo diwn te shops to get a newspaper?

And if you were a pensioner, with no local shop?

If transport was £4 a mile people in villages would have kept using
their village shops so they wouldn't have closed.

But if transport becomes £4 a mile, will the shops re-open?

Of course.

If you can get away with a 10% premium over a supermarket, by virtue of
being local (and actually OUR local shop is CHEAPER then the supermarket
for fresh fruit, meat and bacon and eggs)then its an attractive business
proposition.

One of the side effects of the sorts of fundamental tax changes I have
been proposing is that it leads naturally to a re-localisation of
LIVING, work, being largely telework, becomes global or local..mediuem
scale commuting 20-80 miles) has got to go...and localisation means you
know your neighborhood, take care of it and police it yourself.

Personally I think this is a great social plus.