How would you clear congestion [1]..?

.... murdering other kids, in a cheeky scouser kind of way...

 

Would I do such a thing?

So if you were to remove the constraints of Government (the 'rigging')
how would you do it?

 

That won't work. A London stockbroker isn't going to relocate to
fucking Glamorgan to get a tax-break. They'd rather stay where they
are, recruit the best personnel available, pay them a million a year,
let the cunts commute and pay the higher rate of tax.

No-one will use the service, because it'll take longer - even if
congestion is reduced. Because car-owners would rather sit alone in
their own vehicle, with their own radio on, doing their door-to-door,
than to take public transport. Unless - and I'm thinking of commuting
into Central London - there's an enormous time or money difference (or
they want to go out on the piss after work).

You haven't thought about the impact on schools and families.

You haven't thought about the impact an everyfucking body.

 

*Waves* from Villa Ace.

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The whole point is it doesn't have to fit everyone, if it were to work
for as little as 5-10% of companies that's still a significant reduction
of commuters.

I've seen it done, and it does work, people use it. Royal Sun &
Alliance run this kind of system in Horsham for example. Never
underestimate the power of free transport.

A lot of factories in lincolnshire also employ the free bus to work
system, extending their catchment area to surrounding towns where cheap
staff are available.

The impact is people would have to wake up and go to bed earlier, nobody
would die. Within a few weeks people would be used to the new time
alarm clocks went off. It's not a huge enough offset to cause trauma.

There are plenty of jobs that it doesn't matter what time the work gets
done, so long as there is somebody there to do it... Take a billing
section of an accounts department for example, so what if people work 7
AM - 3PM, if anything it means they actually hit the lunchtime and
afternoon post more easily.

As for the people doing the work, they wake up a few hours early, then
get the benefit of more sunny afternoons.

The whole point here is the it's better when changes won't benefit
everyone, if they did that then the end result would be moving the rush
hour, not staggering people's commuting times.

 

Digital used to do this in Reading: sites a couple of miles out of town,
buses morning, lunchtime and evening. C&G run lunchtime buses the three
miles into Gloucester, and pay the IR to cover the taxable benefit.

Teenagers start about 10:30 am.

Lots of people here work compressed hours, ie four 9-hour days per week. So
four early starts and one extra day at home.

 

In

that was low, Ben... even for you...


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It just entered my head, what can I say.

 

In

normally exactly what enters your head...


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Pete M

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Yeah, I was in a limo on Sunday with my new VP, his deputy and a
couple of others. We'd arrived in Doha, and new VP has only been here
once.

We passed a massage place, near the office, and I pointed and said "in
that establishment another man touched my testicles". There was a
brief moment of silence, until one of the others - who knows me well -
laughed like a ****. Then I told the whole story, and they all
laughed.

Could have turned out bad, though.

 

Why? Since my bike's tyres were slashed (grrr) I've been running to
work. 3.5 miles each way, takes 25 mins + 10 for shower at work, so
quicker than taking the tube, though admittedly this is going fairly
quickly.

It's also free, means I'm getting really fit and have had to increase
the amount I eat to avoid losing weight. Only downside is that it's
less fun than riding to work.

 

In

Well, using your example, there's a few reasons.

1. I don't always get 35 minutes notice if an emergency booking crops up
2. No shower at work
3. I drive a limousine and for me to turn up, all dishevelled and smelling
worse than usual isn't good for business.
4. I knock off work at 3-4am sometimes, and really don't fancy the uphill
ride home, after a 10 hour stretch at work, when the car will get me there
in 10 minutes without having to get changed out of my suit.

Good points, I suspect I'd rather be fat, unhealthy and comfortable than
healthy, thin, and piss wet though after a 3 am bikeride home though.


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I only wish my Trophy did.

 

My small car does 17mpg when thrashed. Be careful what you wish for.

 

I'd guess your car is fucked.

 

It did about 27mpg over the weekend, and I do drive with diving
boots, iyswim. But a diesel it ain't (other than the oil...)

 

I saw a 42MPG average for the return trip on sunday @ 70MPH down country
lanes.

Diesels rock.

 

Yebbut, there has to be suitable employment there for the expanded
population. Presumably too, more employment and more residents would
push up the prices.

Only a few days a year for me, then!

 

I keep parsing that as "Vanilla Ace".

I dunno, damn ex-pat pop singers flaunting their gold-plated taps at
us...

 

50.5mpg for the last tankful in the Silver Tuddy, and that included 100
miles towing a trailer wiv DT175MX aboard.

OK, so I set the cruise control to 68mph and sat back, but still.

The damn thing was a tad thirsty (I thought) when new, but it's got
*much* more economical with 13k miles on. Sweeter and quieter, too.

And that's odd. I didn't think modern cars needed much running in, but
the difference in this case is extraordinary. Are all diesels like this?