Brits will be reverting back to the horse soon

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I heard that the UK citizens reckon that in the future the roads are going to become gridlocked due to the overpopulation and the amount of car-drivers, so it'd be like rush hour but all day long, except maybe the wee hours. The amount of houses that are being built everywhere and the small roads (because it's only a small island) is just a nightmare for the future.

So if the roads are going to be gridlocked with slow-moving traffic all the time, everybody will be going slow, like even slower than a horse and cart. So you might as well just either walk or take public transport, and only use your car if you have a heavy load. Just like people did in the horse and cart years.

So we might as well revert back to the horse.

You might be onto something there! Around where I live, there a quite a few places that would be quicker to reach by riding a horse up the bridleways instead of driving. One of the biggest problems is that, in the older parts of the villages, there's also nowhere for people to park their cars - everywhere you go, cars are parked up on the pavements so that other drivers can get past, and pedestrians end up having to walk in the road; it only takes one person to stop to pick up a passenger, or meet a pedestrian in the middle of the road, and the whole road is blocked. Some of the schools even have a PCSO outside every day to direct people so that it doesn't just become a chaotic free-for-all of drivers arguing about who lets who through.

Like you say, they never take this into account when they build another few hundred new houses. I understand the need for the homes, and they're mostly just where old mill buildings used to be, but the traffic into town sometimes becomes one big, long queue from the town centre out to villages three or four miles away. Of course, even people who could take the bus still don't, because they'd rather be in their cosy car with their favourite music than stuck in the queue on the bus; and then the bus services get cut back! When drivers moan to me about the traffic, I always like to remind them; "but you are traffic!".

Where I live, it seems like only this year, the highway started to get really jammed up during "rush" hours.

Maybe I just didn't notice because I was on 3rd shift for a while, but I've had quite a few times this Summer where traffic will come to a standstill, and it's not because of road construction, or because people are stopping to watch paramedics clean up an accident.

It was never this bad before.

Cars need to get smaller. Let's be realistic, there isn't actually room in the UK for all the big vehicles built there. Rest assured it's worse stateside, people here think they need a 4x4 living room just to get 1 person around.

Minis need to actually be mini again.

In this country we need properly run, frequent and affordable public transport.

I'm not a Corbyn fan but a nationalised railway/public transport system could be a really good thing, improving job and education opportunities, and general accessibility of things so that people on limited budgets are not cut off. A sensible way of lessening the gaps in society.

Spell check wants me to change Corbyn to corncob

Ponies for everyone.

I think, though, that even if public transport was cheaper, the majority of people would still be using their cars.

I've even heard the shallow, offensive stereotypes "buses are for losers" and "those that don't drive are lowlives".

It would need heavy investment but I think if it was reliable and cheap we could get most people using it most of

the time.

Fellow lowlifes,

I would use public transportation, but for the facts that it takes more than two hours one-way to go between my office and home by bus (3 buses, 2 transfers), and that the nearest bus route is nearly a mile from my office (less if I cut through people's yards).

It took me 37 minutes to drive myself to work this morning, door-to-door.

^Aren't you in the US?

My commute is a ten minute walk, eleven if I pause to say hello to the ducks on the river.

all those horses = all that horse plop everywhere. we don't want to return to the horseplop era.

/\Beats auto emissions.And it’s good for the garden.

But there must be a horseplop removal service! Yay the future!

Not to mention all of the fly-extermination services that would be needed.

I'm moving to the UK to pick up horse plop than. That would be the easiest job to get.