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"HLAH" wrote:

...During the planning stage the local authority
deliberately forced the consortium to provide less spaces than the projected
need "to encourage the use of public transport" Unfortunately our county is
a rural one with a poor public transport network so you can guess the
outcome of that marvellous policy.

Yes: we get that both where I live (Northumberland) and where I work
(Newcastle). I would be less hostile to these brilliant ideas if the
"public transport" were also owned and run by the public. There's
almost no choice at all, except to use your car; and when there is a
choice, you look at the crappy, dirty, noisy, **extremely* expensive* PT
option, and then you look at your car, and you think: sod it.

By the way for my commuting, I car-share with three others. That doesn't
make me feel smug; it makes me feel less guilty about being alive in Mr
Blair's Britain[1]. (Ey! I used to vote Labour a long time ago!)

John

[1] Sorry. This is not Mr Blair's Britain. This is Mrs *******
Thatcher's Britain, overlaid with Mr Blair's thick veneer of
finger-wagging political correctness.

Sorry: I notice this thread is called "B&Q Wind turbines"