I'm with the yanks and their tanks on this, infrastructure should expand, they blame these things on the congestion charges, but that's just their excuse to curtail your freedoms. Your freedom to have space, your freedom to have a car that goes beyond a '15 min' boundary.
If I want a tank I should be able to have a fucking tank. Your trains never fucking work and are always on strike, can't rely on that, so your roads should be far better. Far bigger.
You can have a tank. But then don't expect to be allowed to drive on a street through the old city core or a old small village, that was build 200+ years ago. No, we are not flattening houses to be able to expand the road to accomodate your tank.
It's probably a bit of lack of perspective thanks to history.
It's hard for a lot of people to see Britain as such a small island when you travel the entire span of it in less than a day when the British Empire once owned most of the world.
America being global considering It's size makes sense but a lot of people can't wrap their head around how that little island was once so powerful.
My wife and I were discussing the scale of the U.S. compared to European countries with our daughter yesterday.
If one were to drive west across Texas from Orange to El Paso the journey is about 870 miles or 1400 km.
The distance from Sennen Cove on the south western tip of Cornwall to John o' Groats the most north eastern point of Scotland is only 840 miles or 1350 km.
The total land area of Texas us 268.82 thousand square miles or 696.24 thousand square kilometers, with a population of 25.6 million in 2011
The total land area of Great Britain is only 80.8 thousand square miles or 209.33 square kilometers, with a population of 61 million in 2011
So Texas has more than 8 times the area but only about 41% of the population of Great Britain
This information is important to consider when discussing things like public and private transportation differences between the States and European countries.
Even states where public transportation would make sense have third-world shithole levels of corruption. How long has California worked on its high-speed rail connecting Sacramento to San Diego?
I'd agree but "infrastructure should expand" in this case probably means demolishing historical buildings and areas to throw up globohomo "looks like every metro area but somehow uglier" architecture.
If you want a tank, you should be able to have a tank - but part of the freedom to do that means knowing it's not going to fit everywhere and making that compromise.
I'm with the yanks and their tanks on this, infrastructure should expand, they blame these things on the congestion charges, but that's just their excuse to curtail your freedoms. Your freedom to have space, your freedom to have a car that goes beyond a '15 min' boundary.
If I want a tank I should be able to have a fucking tank. Your trains never fucking work and are always on strike, can't rely on that, so your roads should be far better. Far bigger.
And don't get me started on the welsh...
You can have a tank. But then don't expect to be allowed to drive on a street through the old city core or a old small village, that was build 200+ years ago. No, we are not flattening houses to be able to expand the road to accomodate your tank.
You don't have to flatten houses, that's what the tank is for.
It's probably a bit of lack of perspective thanks to history.
It's hard for a lot of people to see Britain as such a small island when you travel the entire span of it in less than a day when the British Empire once owned most of the world.
America being global considering It's size makes sense but a lot of people can't wrap their head around how that little island was once so powerful.
My wife and I were discussing the scale of the U.S. compared to European countries with our daughter yesterday.
If one were to drive west across Texas from Orange to El Paso the journey is about 870 miles or 1400 km.
The distance from Sennen Cove on the south western tip of Cornwall to John o' Groats the most north eastern point of Scotland is only 840 miles or 1350 km.
The total land area of Texas us 268.82 thousand square miles or 696.24 thousand square kilometers, with a population of 25.6 million in 2011
The total land area of Great Britain is only 80.8 thousand square miles or 209.33 square kilometers, with a population of 61 million in 2011
So Texas has more than 8 times the area but only about 41% of the population of Great Britain
This information is important to consider when discussing things like public and private transportation differences between the States and European countries.
Even states where public transportation would make sense have third-world shithole levels of corruption. How long has California worked on its high-speed rail connecting Sacramento to San Diego?
How many Historic city centres were demolished post war up until the 70's in the name of the car?
Here is Stockholm.
https://i.ibb.co/Kw6sYRZ/klara.png
I'd agree but "infrastructure should expand" in this case probably means demolishing historical buildings and areas to throw up globohomo "looks like every metro area but somehow uglier" architecture.
If you want a tank, you should be able to have a tank - but part of the freedom to do that means knowing it's not going to fit everywhere and making that compromise.