Better public transport in urban areas is the answer. Then breaking the car dependency mindset. I started using the train to commute over 20 years ago and never looked back.
However right now it's a mess with continuing industrial action.
I don't in principle disagree, however public transport in urban conurbations are much better than those in rural areas where people have to generally travel much further. I live in a densely populated seaside retirement town, they have closed all the local hospitals and geriatric services which were served by existing bus routes and centred the services on one main hospital, which is not served by direct public transport, so a 5 to 15 minute car journey becomes nearly a 2 hour plus 3 bus journey., with considerable waiting times at unprotected bus terminuses for connecting services. Better joined up thinking is much more important in that public services are supported by public transport infrastructure, we need much more impact analysis performed on dependant infrastructure, before we blindly follow. net zero objectives. No point in building or centralising hospital services in a location if the local community especially those at most risk, cant access it easily.
Hasn't a new Insurance/vehicle repairers code been released requiring isolating damaged EV's in for repair from other vehicles because of the fire risks. It will be interesting to see how insurers load premiums for the increased fire risk and cost involved in EV accidents and whether the incidence of serious injury or death increases with more ev's involved in car accidents. Are our emergency services especially fire geared upto deal with these types of accident, where even a minor collision can lead to a fire.
