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Illegal levels of air pollution linked to child's death

Kankerot said:
More people now are in temporary employment and are travelling further and longer to work. You remember the **** Portillo waxing lyrical about more jobs in life and less jobs for life,
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Im not sure I agree with that analysis. Sounds more like an argument to suit a narrative.

Does temporary employment increase travelling distance.

People havent worked in their local town for many decades.

What about increased opportunity for people to work from home

Or conversely the exponential rise in internet shopping -how many diesel vans are delivering? What difference would it make to the number of journeys whether the drivers are on zero or full time contracts.

Perhaps we should be point the finger at VW for lying about emmisions.
 
Notch7 said:
Im not sure I agree with that analysis. Sounds more like an argument to suit a narrative.

Does temporary employment increase travelling distance.

People havent worked in their local town for many decades.

What about increased opportunity for people to work from home

Or conversely the exponential rise in internet shopping -how many diesel vans are delivering? What difference would it make to the number of journeys whether the drivers are on zero or full time contracts.

Perhaps we should be point the finger at VW for lying about emmisions.
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Look at ONS figures people are travelling further. Also I said multi-factorial cause.

What you said has some merit.

https://www.licencebureau.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/road-use-statistics.pdf
 
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