Parking In The UK.

Where can you find a place to park in Great Britain that doesn't have yellow line's, only out of town Retail Parks. Guy's we have too many vehicles on our roads I live in a semi-rural part of the country not a city, cities are worst there's nowhere to park, the rush hour around my town was between 8 am & 9 am and 4 pm to 5pm now it's most of the day. I don't enjoy driving anymore i hate the Councils and town Planners who have caused this mayhem - Something Should Be Done.

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peterlee · M

Ed Milliband solution is that we all have electric cars with no charging points. Power cuts due to his mad energy schemes should be enough to ensure cars are left at home.

The cull of old people is by the euthanasia bill. Less old people, less cars.

Kill a few pensioners off by removing the winter fuel allowance has been tried. Less old people, less cars.

devonman · 61-69, M

@peterlee most of my life I have lived in a terraced house . No way of charging. .

senghenydd · M

@peterlee Maybe we should all have our own Windmills so be can charge our new Electric cars only there's someone parked in my parking space I will need half a mile of cable to charge my car which is now parked down the street.

No parking spaces, not enough Electricity to support the new Technology, unable to afford to buy a Electric car, my Parents and my Grandparents had it so much better, I look at old photographs of my home town and simply laugh at the empty roads, the changing world doesn't suit me at all.

The fuel allowance was simply very mean, and increasing the Retirement age.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@senghenydd Your parents and grandparents presumably did not own cars, which is why the streets were empty . . you could follow their example.

peterlee · M

@SunshineGirl Only if there is public transport!

In 1957 there were buses everywhere, and a rail network second to none.

There was even a very fast train service from London Marylebone to Manchester passing through Leicester, Nottingham.

So what do they do, close the line and build a shopping centre over Nottingham Victoria, confining Marylebone Station to the Monopoly board.

East Grinstead station was kept open of course, Beaching commuted to London from there.

The folly of the past.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@peterlee Compare the timetables of the 1950s with those of today . . that will rapidly cure you of nostalgia. There is still a good national rail network that will hopefully improve in punctuality and affordability now the privatisedmodel is being dismantled.

Public transport requires compromises . . it will never be as convenient as owning a private car . . people need to decide what their priorities are and vote with their feet (or train tickets).