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Originally Posted by spaman
3. freight, which clogs our roads should be moved to the railways following the analysis and correction in 2 above, and the completion of an acceptable, renewed and fully functionable rail network and freight depots.
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Originally Posted by kernow
The problem with this idea is from the rail depots the goods still have to be delivered to the customer, so with the amount of lorries/vans moving out from the depots delivering to various customers you would have even more town gridlock. My local town which has a railway station is gridlocked now for most of the day, massive amounts of freight arriving at the station to be dispursed would just add to the chaos.
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Well, this is where the common sense comes in....... I agree that by providing a number of well placed rail depots, we would seem to be shifting the problem.... BUT:
1. imagine how much emptier the main trunk roads would be
2. as well as investing in state of the art rail depots, the infrastructure would also be provided to support them....... something that we in this country have clearly failed to do for the last 100 years
3. if adequate depots were built, the impact on our road system would be so much less, as we wouldn't always need great ginormous trucks to shift things in a local area
4. this in itself would provide more local employment
5. it would reduce the number of foreign trucks on our roads who pay nothing for their upkeep
6. the depots would be located in rural areas, again providing local employment, but more importantly, reducing traffic in our big towns
Large businesses started small, and with the natural cycle of growth, bust or expand globally/ get swallowed by a big company, there has to be a way to encourage small business to start up and grow....... otherwise we go INTO phpbb_decline as a nation... and having a less centralised method of moving freight around has to be a bonus for this....
Something else -
a side issue on reducing freight generally, is to stop the globalisation tide by encouraging more goods to be produced and sold locally...... it's not an imposssibility - allow the natural innovative nature of British people to be rewarded by also, possibly, maybe, improving the quality of life for people who would no longer have to rush around the country going insane
Sorry - this is all part of a pet idea of mine
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