Thought for the day

Perhaps more thought should be given to trying forever to extract
more money off motorists for every time they drive any distance.

If the public transport system were truly efficient, and trains ran
on time, regularly and fluently, without any mishaps or faults, then
maybe far more people would be willing to trust in reaching their
destination regularly and on time WITHOUT using their car at all.

If there were a free school bus for every school in our land, then
not only would the children be safe to and from school, but millions
of car trips, with one child and one adult would be unnecessary.

If buses were to run more often and be less prone to violent
passengers via onboard policing of some format, or
prosecution via CCTV on every bus, and indeed train, then
most of us would not think of taking a car into town at all.

The plain fact is all of us feel it is safer, more sure to arrive,
and critically more punctual, to use our own car than to use
public transport, which at present is filthy, late, prone to
accident and frequent breakdown and peopled by out of control
elements in many cases.

Instead of imposing what is in effect another tax on
motorists, and yet further step down the road to
forcing people onto public transport that is sub
standard, obsolete, poorly maintained and run,
maybe a better course would be to completely overhaul
our woeful public transport to first class efficiency.

Most huge lorries need not be used, were it not
for the fear that carriage by rail is prone to failure or strikes.
All heavy goods should essentially go by rail, where
traffic jams should be unheard of, and then our heaviest
motorway and trunk road users would be halved at
one stroke. There would be no need of distancing duties
on cars if our national transport worked properly.
So say the Ferrits for June.
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