Love it – Hate it? What Can Be Done About The Dratted Motor Car?

The Car has made the greatest difference to Towns and Villages and has created many, many problems. Dying Village and Town Facilities illustrate the Greatest Disruption ever to Town Design

More Cars & Dying Villages …. As more and more motor-cars flood onto our roads (grown from three millions just seventy years ago to more than thirty-five millions today), so too do more and more villages lose all of the amenities that once made them the very image of the ‘Rural Britain’ that has always underpinned the image of ‘how life should be’, from the Romantic Movement and, later, the formation of the Arts & Crafts movement to, most recently, people seeking ‘a healthier way of life’, particularly and most recently in trying to escape the disease of Corona-Virus. Such a loss of local-amenities has been very much increased since the advent of shopping through the Internet, although this has greatly increased the number of delivery vehicles. Albert Bridge above, shown at the time of a ‘Tidal Flow’ of traffic (toward central London in the morning and away in the evening), illustrates that shops that now exist partly rely upon passing traffic almost as much as local people with easy parking now made universally difficult, if not impossible, because of the general lack of space anywhere for casual car parking spaces