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And there was me thinking I was older than you.I remember when all that were fields!
I've wondered before now if using smaller cars would reduce waiting times.....
I've wondered if using faster cars would reduce waiting times.....
If you need more throughput then you have 2 options - speed up the flow or increase capacity - so for traffic it's either increase the flow by having faster cars (with enforced minimum speed limits) or smaller cars OR if everyone wants big cars and slow driving then it's more roads!!
Before HC responds - obviously another strategy could be to reduce the demand but I'm just suggesting how to increase the flow on the roads on the assumption that demand isn't reducing.
But I have essential journeys of less than 5 miles before needing a stop.
I have to see a client who are based 3 miles from home, then stop, collect work, then go home again. It's a 6 mile round trip but with a stop in the middle.
The same applies when I collect work from a supplier then deliver it. It's a 10 mile trip but with two stops in it.
So how would your 5 mile rule work for essential journeys like that?
I wasn't being serious, lets face it lazy people would just keep driving round the block til they hit 5, but for 3 miles you could easily cycle it.
I've wondered if using faster cars would reduce waiting times.....
If you need more throughput then you have 2 options - speed up the flow or increase capacity - so for traffic it's either increase the flow by having faster cars (with enforced minimum speed limits) or smaller cars OR if everyone wants big cars and slow driving then it's more roads!!
Before HC responds - obviously another strategy could be to reduce the demand but I'm just suggesting how to increase the flow on the roads on the assumption that demand isn't reducing.
Bus may be a more efficient use of space but it certainly isn't of time/money/convenience. Until that changes I wont use buses.
Mmm Crawley boasts a major international airport on it's doorstep. We on the other hand have Seighford City Aerodrome and Hixon Hanglidermicrolite Heli-port within our environs. And yet neither of our local Duty-Free emporiums stock WSFFs !......I was down in Crawley earlier this week. The bus service I used (the Crawley to Bewbush service) runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It even operates a full 24 hour service on Christmas Day. Interesting comparison, as the populations of Stafford and Stone are similar to those of Crawley and Bewbush. Now that's what I call a proper public transport service.
Perhaps a day out to Harrogate would convince those who rarely travel beyond the Borough that it ain't that bad
Was up in Harrogate for a couple of days recently and, true enough, the traffic in the lower part of the town is bloody awful, even in the evening when you would expect things to flow well with the lighter traffic.
A MAJOR advantage of Harrogate though (apart from zero closed shops and places I actually wanted to buy from) was the use of parking discs for on-street parking. Pick up a disc (free from loads of places) and hey presto you get 3 hours free on street parking (unless you want to park right outside Betty's).
Stafford could well do with a system such as that.