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As vehicle technology advances and electric/hydrogen powered cars, trikes, bikes - with automated piloting - become the norm, the obsession with dense, urban living, usually demanded to stop people "driving everywhere", may well end.
And considering the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on public attitudes to how we live, work and travel, a permanent shift away from living in flats may well be happening. Families especially want houses, with gardens.
If the vehicles they use don't pollute or cause congestion, then why shouldn't they live in a small town or village some distance from their place of work, in a property suitable for working from home?
Coronavirus is making us think about lots of things in a new way. Technological advances unthinkable even ten years ago have delivered a vaccine incredibly quickly. How soon will it be before we're dialling up autonomous trikes on our smartphones to take us where we need to go?
All this exposes blunt instruments like the Congestion Charge and ULEZ as outdated, backward-looking policies which are no longer fit-for-purpose. They did their job when they were needed, driving, post 2000, changes in travel to work & far less polluting vehicles on our roads.
This has seen air quality improve significantly over the last ten years. But they really are trying to address a problem which is rapidly disappearing. Time to pause, think and design for the future, not the past.
Please sign our petition at http://www.stopulez.com
Please sign our petition at http://www.stopulez.com
