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how we should accommodate the ever-increasing (perceived) need to travel. So, everybody wants to be everywhere in no time, quite often leading to private motorised travel as their mode of choice. Great concentrations of travel, such as on bank holidays or travel into highly-concentrated dense city centres in the morning peak hour, are thought to demand innovative solutions. There are roughly two groups of such solutions--one the old predict-and-provide model that you simply try to build your way out of congestion, adding more roads, railways, airport capacity, and so forth, and the second the realisation that this is impossible and that it would be much wiser to reduce the need to travel, in fact reducing capacity, especially for air travel.
We just get used to the hassle and unpleasantness of road congestion/airport procedure as it slowly gets worse. If it had happened suddenly or you dropped in from another time/era/planet then maybe you would be dismayed and want something done about it but when you are 'in it' we tend to accept and adapt.
Having said that I find the 'thats life' resignation depressing.
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