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@Skülly
Most of the road & rail transport problems in the South East are associated with people thinking that the urban work centre & suburban domestic areas model means they have an inalienable right to travel miles and miles each day, independently, cheaply and without congestion. It's unsustainable. Furthermore, a lot of the problems associated with the flight of the affluent from our cities is a negative by-product of this system. Why is that we assume that its OK to commute 50 miles twice a day, thus making the urban places we converge upon hell, expecting to be able to speed through and drive like pricks though the city neighbourhoods to and from the idyllic villages, which are almost entirely populated by people who don't spend all day there? Its just not OK.
Sparky I don't aim this ire at you, particularly, just the general idea of transport provision to allow our cities to be blighted by roads. I have no idea of your situation.
Live near where you work. It'd make life better for everybody. Its not rocket surgery. Our income taxes ought to be weighted toward those that commute far.
And make the Congestion zone £50 a day with no discounts, and the entire M25 area. That'd maybe start to make a difference to London traffic as a whole.