Re: Thats the point!
"Its not so long ago that most workers either walked to work or used public transport."
Petrol was quite cheap in the UK up to 1973. However most people couldn't afford to buy a car until the boom of the 1960s. Employment was usually a local affair - often with factories at the bottom of the workers' streets. Holidays were annual pilgrimages to nearby coastal resorts by train or coach.
The 1960s saw the sudden rise in car ownership - and there was then a chicken and egg situation with the reduction in public transport. By the 1980s it became expected that people would use their car to commute longer distances to work - or to travel for holidays.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
