Get Over Yourselves
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It is even worse here - the road is perfectly wide enough for even HGV's to get past with one parked fully on the road, yet almost without fail, even the small car driver park on the pavement. Despite the width of road, the pavements are only just wide enough for one person walking single file and in some places due to hedge growth, not even wide enough for one person. The main cause is the kerbs are set far too low, there is no deterrent for drivers not to drive on the pavement. I see delivery drivers progress for many yards along the pavements. One day, someone will innocently step out of their garden gate, into the path of one of these drivers, hidden by a hedge.
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Larger out-of-town supermarkets, increasing rents, increasing delivery costs, all push prices up to the point people no longer wanted to shop local.
I've lived a long time without a car, I never owned one after passing my test at 17, and only bought my first one when I was 28. My brother still manages without a car, although hires one for holidays. The car I have does not get used much - mostly for trips to Wickes these days! Although I am about to drive across town for my weekly fitness class.
IMO it is better to have a car but use it as moderately as possible than not have a car where I live. I do shop a lot at the local co-op and farm shop, but simply cannot afford to feed a family from those shops alone.
Our local banks also closed, they are not missed - why would they be most now do not use cash, but for those who do, we still have Post Office's able to accept and pay out cash on behalf of banks.
Local shops will reappear, if there is a need. They likely had to increase their prices just to be able to remain open, with fewer customers. I remember when all we had were local shops and they thrived, because they had custom.
Yes the days when everyone's place of work was at the end of their road, and they all done their shopping at the grocer's....
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I am not against cars per se, it's the fact that there are too many of them; that many of them are driven badly; that there are many cars in poor condition and that the traffic laws are not enforced.
"Too many of them" is the chief reason for my dislike. The traffic laws should be enforced far more severely than they are now. Walk down any street in a town such as Blackburn and within minutes you will see dozens of cars with some sort of illegality, all getting away with. And that's just parked cars. As for moving cars you will see dozens of offences in just one minute, again all getting away with. Besides traffic offences, anybody convicted of ANY criminal offence should be banned from driving as part of their punishment.
I believe that in Japan vehicles over a certain age cannot be used; if that law were introduced here as well as getting rid of all the lawbreaking drivers the number of cars on the roads would more than halve.
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People used to work miles from their homes in those days too. Look at the classic scenes in old British films of factory closing times: streams of people coming out of the gates on bicycles; the occasional motorbike - sometimes with sidecar. Usually not a car in sight.
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But walking won't teach me to defend myselfThat's a bit daft - walk there and you would maybe not need the class at all
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I walk a lot. I also do martial arts, not so much now, but it is the only activity I have ever really enjoyed. I go there mostly for fitness though, so I called it a fitness class.
