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motorists complain of being "priced off the road" yet more cars appear every month and as Yorgo says, it's still cheaper than PT.
I thought the idea was to use revenue from congestion charges to improve PT and make it a viable alternative to driving, but the costs of that go up every year (the tube is outrageously expensive) ?
Ken's put lots of buses on the road, but they are traffic too and cause no end of congestion and pollution , most I see (excluding oxford st etc) are near empty unless it's school time. And with stops being so close together it encourages the lazy to never walk more than ten yards.
Not enough people walk, not near enough. and I mean decent distances, not just a mile to the nearest tube station.
Never mind cycling, get these slobs walking a bit, it's free!
Now I don't understand quite how this works, but apparently the government are "in debt" to something in the billions, so we have in place a structure that wastes our money, lies about where it is spent and is all the time running up huge debt without much to show for it but a few bendy buses.
If they were your accountants, you'd sack them.