In article ,
Peter Parry wrote:
Why do those have to live so far from work they need to come in by car?

Because they cannot afford to rent or buy houses anywhere near their
work and no work is available near where they live.

Exactly. And that needs to be addressed and soon. There's far more to the
problem than restricting car use by any form of price alone.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Peter Parry wrote:
Why do those have to live so far from work they need to come in by car?

Because they cannot afford to rent or buy houses anywhere near their
work and no work is available near where they live.

Exactly. And that needs to be addressed and soon. There's far more to the
problem than restricting car use by any form of price alone.

Best solved by removing all the subsidies for commuter travel. Then
people, and their employers, could face up to the true cost of
commuting. Smaller cities, with an even smaller hinterland. Livelier
country towns maybe.


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djc

djc wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Peter Parry wrote:
Why do those have to live so far from work they need to come in by car?

Because they cannot afford to rent or buy houses anywhere near their
work and no work is available near where they live.

Exactly. And that needs to be addressed and soon. There's far more to the
problem than restricting car use by any form of price alone.

Best solved by removing all the subsidies for commuter travel. Then
people, and their employers, could face up to the true cost of
commuting. Smaller cities, with an even smaller hinterland. Livelier
country towns maybe.


Some merit in that.