Diesel doom

[RetroPug]

Electric cars in big cities are the way to go I think, however where it comes from is important. We need more infrastructure whether its hydrogen/batteries/whatever.

To be fair I think the best way to go is more public transport, and have proper park and ride type facilities for drivers.

It's not good for every sod to drive their own car into a city centre, belching out fumes - the roads just get clogged up and no-one go's anywhere quickly.

The only solution is a futurama style tube system

The problem in the UK is that although great efforts have been made to make the proportion of people using public transport higher, they have focused on pricing motorists off of the road rather than simply making public transport so good you'd be a fool not to use it as it is the best option.

Other European cities (example Cologne in Germany) have nice, modern trams that run every few minutes, which are really cheap, with stations absolutely everywhere so you are never more than a few minutes walk from where you need to be and the outlying stations all have free carparks to park and ride and bus links. In this case, driving is more expensive and no quicker so people only drive if they need to. This also results in being able to drive into the city centre of a city over 1.2 million people in 15min from the outskirts and get parking quickly and easily and pay only a few euros for it as there is barely any congestion.

Obviously Cologne was bombed flat in the war so city planners had a lot of space to play with when designing infrastructure, however we should absolutely be looking at what works in other places as inspiration.

Public transport in most of this country isn't great and it certainly isn't cheap, hence people go to great lengths to avoid it.