The Wightman Road Residents' Groups was excluded. A curious decision given the current controversies.
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£100 seems a bit steep, but granted, it is difficult with someone who is immobile. Nevertheless for the half dozen times in a year you may need a car for these kind of things just hire one. Miles cheaper than paying to have a chunk of metal cluttering up the street for the rest of the year. Just use trains, buses, walking for all your other journeys when you don't have someone who is immobile with you.
But the type of journey you describe where you absolutely have to use a car you will only need to complete a handful of times a year. Why pay to have a car parked in the street for those handful of occasions? The cost of a car must run into thousands of pounds a year. Hire a car for those journeys (and you can hire small cars, probably that are cleaner than yours if that's what you want) and use public transport for all others. And save a little space in the street. And tbh there is very little justification for owning a car if you live in London. Private car journeys for most of us will be banned in London in the foreseeable future anyway because they are completely unsustainable and unjustified. They poison the rest of us (and you and your family)
I am happy to, and can afford to, pay to park my car on the street, if only to annoy officious busybodies who want to tell me what to do with my life.
If my car is sitting parked on the street it's poisoning nobody.
( It may only be coincidence, but every time I use public transport I catch a cold or a sore throat. )
But it's not going to stay sitting in the street is it? And even if it does it's an eyesore. I don't want a load of big chunks of metal in the street. Your right to do what you want with your life ends when doing what you want with your life harms others. Car driving indisputably harms others, so much so that collectively car drivers exercising their rights to do what they want with their lives are collectively killing thousand of us every year.
You should use public transport more, you develop immunity.
I think it's a question of what is available now and what is going to be available imminently. Going from continent to continent is difficult to do if you don't fly although more local county to country alternatives are available (Eurostar to Paris rather than flying for instance)
More locally, in cities like London, viable alternatives already exist and need improving. Part of the problem though with improving public transport is money. If the money currently being spent on improving the road network for private vehicles was even partially diverted into improving public transport and public transport options, private vehicle use would become less attractive. At the moment public vehicle use is subsidised by the state though the funding of motorways, road widening and so on which we all (including non drivers like me) pay for.
PS - I haven't set foot on a plane for something like 10 years.
Probably not for over ten years (more due to money rather than being environmental), but that's not the point. Not sure what your point is? You going for the "champagne socialist" line?
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