They might need some help with moving the furniture.
Lets build some car-free towns and see how many people move to them.
Also, another factor is the unaffordability of car ownership in London - nowhere safe to park it, and the cost of a mortgage or rent may leave very little money for a car.Some locations in London have a very low level of car ownership. Kensington and Chelsea 37%, Westminster 36%, Islington 26%, City of London 13%. Compared to the national average of 77%, these largely desirable locations have already adopted the 15 minute city concept, thanks to ubiquitous public transport.
And for me quality of life means not sitting in a traffic jam.
What about the people who live in properties on main roads?
What about them?
The idea of a "Rat Run" is nebulous.
If someone is so averse to traffic they should live in a cul de sac in a village or move to Sark
But I just can't see it ever happening.I do hope it spreads. We must reduce our reliance on cars.
Any student of the history of transport can point to several radical changes in the way we travel around the country, from stagecoaches to canals, railways, buses, trams and cars. This process will continue to produce change, and we shouldn't imagine that the current phase is the final stage in this process. Electric cars, autonomous light railways and self-driving personal vehicles, personal rapid transport systems will all change the way we get around; in addition, high-bandwidth information technology will reduce the necessity for people to travel ridiculous distances to find work. We can also communicate face to face with people around the world- one useful lesson of the lockdown is that we can have very successful social, educational and work interactions on the net. This will become increasingly important in the century to come.Add on the woeful public transport system we have here (outside of the cities) and most people simply can't do it, even if they want to.
An admirable thing to hope for some might say, but idealist in the extreme imo.
It's all going to shit. Sorry. That's the way life works.Any student of the history of transport can point to several radical changes in the way we travel around the country, from stagecoaches to canals, railways, buses, trams and cars. This process will continue to produce change, and we shouldn't imagine that the current phase is the final stage in this process. Electric cars, autonomous light railways and self-driving personal vehicles, personal rapid transport systems will all change the way we get around; in addition, high-bandwidth information technology will reduce the necessity for people to travel ridiculous distances to find work. We can also communicate face to face with people around the world- one useful lesson of the lockdown is that we can have very successful social, educational and work interactions on the net. This will become increasingly important in the century to come.
Or it could all go to shit, if we let the conspiracy theorists get their way.
…one useful lesson of the lockdown is that we can have very successful social, educational and work interactions on the net.
We can indeed, but still, a lot of companies are now telling staff to get back to the office as it's considered 'more productive'.high-bandwidth information technology will reduce the necessity for people to travel ridiculous distances to find work. We can also communicate face to face with people around the world- one useful lesson of the lockdown is that we can have very successful social, educational and work interactions on the net.
Which it is.We can indeed, but still, a lot of companies are now telling staff to get back to the office as it's considered 'more productive'.
I think you might secretly be Isaac Asimov.Any student of the history of transport can point to several radical changes in the way we travel around the country, from stagecoaches to canals, railways, buses, trams and cars. This process will continue to produce change, and we shouldn't imagine that the current phase is the final stage in this process. Electric cars, autonomous light railways and self-driving personal vehicles, personal rapid transport systems will all change the way we get around; in addition, high-bandwidth information technology will reduce the necessity for people to travel ridiculous distances to find work. We can also communicate face to face with people around the world- one useful lesson of the lockdown is that we can have very successful social, educational and work interactions on the net. This will become increasingly important in the century to come.
Well at least it will reduce the population.I think that his second novel in that series, The Naked Sun, is more relevant here. He imagined a society where everyone stays at home and they only interact with each other in virtual meetings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun
We may need to move to something like this, especially if there are more pandemics. Which is entirely possible. The next one might be the product of genetic warfare.
Silver linings in every cloud, eh...Well at least it will reduce the population.
No we don't.We need to get away from single detached houses out in the country
No we don't.
If that's how one wants to live and has the money for it, why try to prevent it?
I figure that Prof Thorne is another one of those people who either likes to tell other people what to do, or is cheesed off that his own living standards are some cramped 2 bed flat and want's everyone else to have to live in similar conditions, or both
It most certainly is, the world of work has changed for ever most office based workers are working some form of hybrid working pattern or like myself work from home all of the time our old office is just somewhere to drop into if we want (I don't really see the need)Well, they need to get a wiggle on. The amount of empty office space in London is at a record high, and no-one wants to take on the overheads any more. Square kilometres of new office space in Docklands has never been used, nor will it ever be, unless they convert it to accommodation.
Where are they going to grow the food for this new Utopia? Or manage the reservoirs? Or dig the Iron ore, stone, etc. Will that all be done by robots or will someone have to travel more than 15 minutes to get there and do the work? Or are we talking Soylent Green here?No we don't.
If that's how one wants to live and has the money for it, why try to prevent it?
I figure that Prof Thorne is another one of those people who either likes to tell other people what to do, or is cheesed off that his own living standards are some cramped 2 bed flat and want's everyone else to have to live in similar conditions, or both.
But in many cases not thought out very well from the customer's point of view. When I do get through to someone they've no one to ask if anything goes off script and I've several times been unable to hear them because of screaming children, barking dogs, TVs etc.It most certainly is, the world of work has changed for ever most office based workers are working some form of hybrid working pattern or like myself work from home all of the time our old office is just somewhere to drop into if we want (I don't really see the need)
What many people don't understand is the the rollout of the virtual office desktop, let me explain a few years back you could work from home but access to corporate networks was clunky to say the least, and lots of specialist software did not work at all, so you had to be physically connected to the network in the same building as the server, that's all changed I start up my laptop and every application I need works like i am physically in the office, even my landline (through teams) it's revolutionized home working and it all started before the pandemic