| I don't think there is an easy solution to congestion, not one that everyone will be happy with.
The bottom line is far more of us live further away from our work than we did 30 or 40 years ago. The days of a job for life, where you could reasonably live in the same town, are gone. There are no jobs local to home for me, so I have to travel to work, but there isn't the security when I get there to persuade me to relocate, so I travel and help cause the congestion.
I seem to recall the government wants a 'modern, flexible workforce', but they don't want it on the roads. If and when congestion gets so bad that I really can't do the journey anymore, then I'll reconsider my living/working arrangements, so in a way, congestion should be kind of self-regulating. |