| Re: Landlord ordered to pull down pub sign - because it 'encourages drink-driving'. |
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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: DougDoug Date: Sep 19, 2008 23:59
On 19 Sep, 08:59, Adrian gmail.com> wrote:> Tony Dragon btinternet.com> gurgled happily, sounding much
> like they were saying:
>>>>> Where are these overflowing pub car parks?
>>> Most places on a Friday and Saturday evening.
>> Open your eyes, & just because a car is in a pub car park does not mean
>> the driver is drinking.
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> Even if it does, it doesn't mean the car's going to be driven by a
> drunken person - many pub car parks are still fairly full on a Saturday
> or Sunday morning, with cars which have been left there overnight. I'd
> have thought Duhg'd approve of that, since they're not "road garaged"...
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But the strong temptation to drink and drive is there. You can't tell
me that someone who reels out of the pub drunk is going think
carefully about leaving the car there and walking home instead.
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>> Where you & I live  there is no problem with PT late at night, in other
>> areas there aint no PT at night.
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> Or in the day, in many places...
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> But that - as we keep being reminded - is purely down to The Evil Car.
> Nothing to do with economic reality, oh, no.
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The Evil Car continues to be allowed to exist in massive quantities,
and their drivers are allowed to kill with relative impunity, because
of economics and short-sighted policies. If you engineer work/
lifestyles around cars they will be become indispensable and that was
the mistake made in the first place.
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