It's about quality of life! Being able to cross the road to play, shop, whatever. Elderly people and children and women are more vulnerable to vehicle impact. Motors are repressing our freedom to have healthy lives.
We have to make it less attractive to drive ourselves and our stuff around so freely, and remove the imperative for fast flowing traffic. Roads are a massacre!
But the economic argument is a red herring.
It's about quality of life! Being able to cross the road to play, shop, whatever. Elderly people and children and women are more vulnerable to vehicle impact. Motors are repressing our freedom to have healthy lives.
We have to make it less attractive to drive ourselves and our stuff around so freely, and remove the imperative for fast flowing traffic. Roads are a massacre!