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- From: steve@acorn.co.uk (Steve "daffy" Hunt)
- Newsgroups: uk.transport
- Subject: Re: City Traffic
- Message-ID: <21167@acorn.co.uk>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 18:32:27 GMT
- References: <930322120351@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk>
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- TREHARAJ@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk wrote:
- : I see you must be one of those people who sees having to wait a couple
- : of minutes for a bus as being a reason to drive. I am not arguing the
-
- No, I am one of those people who live where public transport
- is almost non-existent.
-
- : wider issues of public v. private transport, I _am_ talking about rush
- : hour traffic within Birmingham. You are hardly going to have to plan your
- : life around the timetable of inner-city buses at _this_ time, your
- : arguement is more applicable to train and plane timetables.
-
- Perhaps you do all your travelling during the daytime. I don't.
- I travel to my place of work, then go out socialising or whatever,
- and then need to travel home at midnight, one, two in the morning
- or whatever. What do you mean the buses stop at eleven?
-
- : Come back to the real world, you attacked BCC's strategy as being
- : simple-minded, how do you intend getting businesses to do what you
- : say? Either entire places of work come in at different times and
- : so have a hell of a time communicating with each other in the overlaps
- : or the people at each place of work have different working hours......
-
- I didn't say it was easy, just that it would be good if it could be
- accomplished. There are plenty of jobs where 9 to 5 is not important.
- I've *never* worked 9 to 5, and I never intend to _ I feel it is a
- stultifying practise that should be abhorred, like the shops being
- shut on Sunday.
-
- : I hope your on a wind up on this point. Your suggesting that we
- change : working practices to such an extent to pander to the
- motorist? I prefer
-
- No, no, it reduces the peak load on the whole transport system, which
- means it can be run more economically and effectively. For example,
- rail operators will no longer need to keep a load of extra rolling
- stock that is only needed twice a day. Buses will run more freely
- because the roads will be clearer.
- --
- Steve Hunt steve@acorn.co.uk
-