There is also a kind of "access poverty" with some households with very high mileage and multiple cars, and others with none at all. In Edinburgh, there are as many cars as there are househ… (View Post)

This is the crux of the problem. You either have to make active travel relatively more attractive, or increase the marginal cost of car journeys. Not sure how, but the socially optimal outcome would … (View Post)

That doesn't mean they use them for short journeys in the same way we do. That's why it's lazy to call people campaigning for active travel anti-car. The only way in which I might be d… (View Post)

Cameron held an EU referendum to satisfy his right-wing; Starmer has removed a portrait of a PM from 30 years ago to satisfy his equivalent. (View Post)

If you take a step back, Labour are behaving like a competent Conservative government. Fiscally responsible, no increases in taxes (so far...), cuts to universal benefits, neutral position on Gaza, b… (View Post)