UK Inches Closer To Eliminating Private Car Ownership

Soon, Brits will own nothing and will be happier for it…

UK Government Transport Minister Trudy Harrison recently spoke at a mobility conference, addressing the future of personal mobility. In her comments, she said it was necessary to ditch the "20th-century thinking centred around private vehicle ownership and towards greater flexibility, with personal choice and low carbon shared transport." That’s right, she said the quiet part loud and showed the hand of a growing number of government officials.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

She is an under-minister who was expressing her opinion to an audience of business people with a vested interest in the matter. She was not expressing Government policy.

That quoted sentence is self-contradictory too, and I don't suppose she knows very much basic science and engineering. Most politicians seem not to! The problem is that many of them, and most environmental campaigners appear to have comfortable but rather constrained "we-all" lives and think everyone lives in the same way.

It may well be that in decades to come there will be far fewer proivately-owned cars on the roads, but by the cost and impracticality of battery-powered cars for many (including me!), not by some diktat.

tallpowerhouseblonde · 36-40, F

@ArishMell This.👍