Appreciating Nigel Knowles’s letter about Wyre Forest bus service deficiencies, I note he concludes by commenting on subsidies.
Do we ever take a balanced view about the notion that how we travel is how we treat our surroundings?
Take someone whose lifestyle choice of movement consumes ten times our finite public space compared with that of the community- sustaining bus passenger.
They then pay £1.25 of every £6.70 worth of the cost of the service of providing storage.
Yes, you’ve guessed it! The identity of this mysterious highimpact traveller is none other than the able-bodied car driver and their land use hungry requirement for parking.
Letters appear often from ablebodied car owners whose selfselecting mode of transport seems to overlook that paying for parking is part of the overall cost of running a car.
Giles Angell
Kidderminster
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