YES our transport is a mess.

Yes! All governments since Beeching have made a mess of Public Transport.

Governments aimed the tax and subsidy system in favour of the private car, and road transport, with the sole aim of boosting vehicle production, as that was a big export for us then. BUT they faild to increase the amount of miles of roads for all these cars etc to travel on. A few poorly constructed motorways were not enough.

This move to the private car was to the detriment of bus and train travel even within the big cities. Now 50yrs+ of shortsighted failed policies are coming home to roost.

Not enough room on the roads for all the cars and lorries, and not enough miles of railway tracks for the trains to run on. To make matters worse planners have encouraged the separation of home and work place, thus increasing the need for people to commute!

Travel chaos will just get worse. Especially as this government would rather invest in pointless wars than internally in our nations infrastructure.

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