Dave Plowman (News) wrote
Rod Speed wrote:

I do realise being a colonial you will not have any idea what
history is, but round here all the pubs and most of the houses
were built long before driving everywhere became the norm
- and indeed before the motor car was invented...

Irrelevant to how many of them are still pubs and are
still within walking distance of where people now live.

You still don't have a clue about UK urban living.

We'll see...

Many older town pubs don't even have car parks.

The pub itself doesn’t need to have a car park, what matters is
if there is parking available at the time the pub is used, stupid.

So you might spend longer looking for
somewhere to park than to just walk there.

Bet Adam hardly ever walks to the pubs he uses
and he appears to use pubs more than most do.

I had three local pubs once all within
easy walking distance. Only one left.

And that is another reason why pub traffic is dying,
because far fewer have a pub they can walk to now
and the crack down on drink driving means that if
you can't walk to the pub, it makes more sense to
spend a lot less on the grog and drink at home where
you don’t have to worry about being over the limit.

It's got pretty well nothing to do with smoking or driving.

Wrong as always with the driving.

And if you don’t believe that the driving is relevant,
you might care to explain what has seen the traffic
in pubs drop so dramatically over time.