On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 20:06:43 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote


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.

Of course stupid, cars park in things called car parks when there's
no where else they are allowed to park.
Why would pubs have car parks paying for their upkeep etc.. if they weren't needed.



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.

Yep some even make their own alcohol so they don't have top walk to the shops to buy it, it saves money too, and yuo arebn;t stung for by the tax either.


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.

traffic in pubs is this some sort of 'drive thru' bar I've not heard about.