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"...all public transport should be free. Also, the network should be as good for out of area travel as within." Lots of free but (mostly) empty buses? Doesn't sound like a good thing. Could drive up rural property prices, at the expense of a lot of angry urbanites, who would never vote for that party again. | |||
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"Bus use has been decimated by privatisation as the private companies have concentrated on profitable routes. This is worse outside major metropolitan areas. Even where we live, where the Mayor has brought buses back under his control, if we want to travel within Greater Manchester there is a bus every 7 to 9 minutes all day. Want to travel elsewhere, e.g. Warrington, then you may need to wait an hour. Within the area it is cheap, outside it is not as you need multiple tickets. Notwithstanding the above, the plans haven't been radical enough. I think council tax should be increased by £500 per household, then all public transport should be free. Also, the network should be as good for out of area travel as within." Unusually left wing of you | |||
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"For those familiar with 2000AD, and Mega City One, the whole concept of a "Block" (aka Hab Block) was in essence the 15-min city built upwards. . Each building is a housing project tower that houses entire cities' worth of residents, some numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Hundreds of floors high. Blocks contain shopping malls, parks, food courts and other amenities the residents might need. . In theory, you could be born, work, retire and then die, never needing to leave your own block. Every single municipal service was in your own block. . Blocks had their own peculiar challenges (Block Wars !) where the residents of one block went to war with another block nearby (many blocks were connected to each other in the MC-1). . I should imagine that is where the concept for Fallout may have came as well. Born in your Vault, live, work and die in your Vault. . I do find it somewhat appealing that everything I might ever possibly need is pragmatically located no more than 15 mins away from me and my abode. Online deliveries can bring the rest as its not important where they are located if they deliver. . For those who like a little "tourism", these Blocks had their own resorts, beaches, immense Disney-world type amusement parks, zoos, museums, theatres, cinemas, and so on and so forth. " And needed Judges like Dredd who went around executing perps! | |||
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"Bus use has been decimated by privatisation as the private companies have concentrated on profitable routes. This is worse outside major metropolitan areas. Even where we live, where the Mayor has brought buses back under his control, if we want to travel within Greater Manchester there is a bus every 7 to 9 minutes all day. Want to travel elsewhere, e.g. Warrington, then you may need to wait an hour. Within the area it is cheap, outside it is not as you need multiple tickets. Notwithstanding the above, the plans haven't been radical enough. I think council tax should be increased by £500 per household, then all public transport should be free. Also, the network should be as good for out of area travel as within. Unusually left wing of you " Not really, the essentials of life should be state owned and run. Power, energy, water, communication etc. Public transport should also be just that. It can't be run privately, or for profit, as market forces will leave it in the mess it is currently in. | |||
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"...all public transport should be free. Also, the network should be as good for out of area travel as within. Lots of free but (mostly) empty buses? Doesn't sound like a good thing. Could drive up rural property prices, at the expense of a lot of angry urbanites, who would never vote for that party again." Why would the buses be empty? An integrated system would ensure buses are where they are needed. This doesn't currently happen due to lack of management ability. | |||
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"We drove 10 miles yesterday into Belfast and parked for 3 hours. Petrol and parking was cheaper than one bus return ticket.... And just over half of one train return ticket... And even if we'd have got the bus we live 2 miles from the nearest bus stop or rail station so we need the car to get there. That's why busses are shite" And it's things like this which are not encouraging people to move to the buses. not when it's cheaper and more convenient to use a car. That policy is not very helpful to the environment if everyone is doing it, instead of using public transport, is it ? | |||
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