On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 07:12:30 +0100, Doug wrote
(in article
l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com>):
> On 1 Sep, 19:23, nik.morgan
talktalk.net> wrote:>> On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 18:55:35 +0100, Knight Of The Road wrote
>> (in article
bt.com>):
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >>> "Doug"
riseup.net> wrote>>
>>> It would be a pretty desperate situation if I had to rely on you to
>>> feed me.
>>
>>> Why takes the food to Tesco, the Tesco fairy?
>>
>>> Â Luckily though there are very many others who also transport
>>> food and probably some who are not totally car dependent like you.
>>
>>> I've never met a truck driver who didn't own a car. How would he get to
>>> work?
>>
>> Come to think of it I don't either, all own cars or vans and a lot own
>> scooters or bikes as well for the summertime. In the last couple of RCD's
>> I've delivered to on a regular basis most of the workers there also own cars
>> though there is some car pooling and minibusses for the migrant workers. Â
>> There are certainly no bus services or trains and these places work 24/7
>> with
>> shift patterns across all hours. no car (or own transport) equals no work.
>>
> I doubt that you or Vince's anecdotal evidence counts for much. You
> seem to be trying to claim that truck drivers NEVER EVER live near
> their place of work within walking or cycling distance.
>
I think in the vast majority of cases that's true, most depots etc are sited
away from population centres, usually a planning department decision driven
by nimbyism . Walking or cycling is not really a viable option over those
sort of distances carrying all that is needed.
The price of nimbyism is more cars on the road and trucks having to make huge
polluting expensive detours.
** Posted from
http://www.teranews.com **
