One of the biggest mistakes made was phaseing out the old electric "trolly" busses and replaceing em with diesiels, i believe many other countrys have gone back to electric for their public transport, That would make a difference to the emmisions problem, same for the railways, they cut em back and as a result the roads are crouded with heavy good veh's
(prob get a dig frome the truckers on here) if the rail ways were expanded and all electrified then most freight could be moved by rail, we used to have a large goods yard at fratton with only short haul deliverys from there by smaller trucks, Now it's a McDonalds, a B&Q and several other usual suspects, these days it's all speed, next day delivery, the got to have it now
mentality that goes these days, I'm not saying that life was better on those days but do we really need to live life so f**king fast
(prob get a dig frome the truckers on here) if the rail ways were expanded and all electrified then most freight could be moved by rail, we used to have a large goods yard at fratton with only short haul deliverys from there by smaller trucks, Now it's a McDonalds, a B&Q and several other usual suspects, these days it's all speed, next day delivery, the got to have it now
mentality that goes these days, I'm not saying that life was better on those days but do we really need to live life so f**king fast
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