Why Are There So Many Cars On Our Roads?

It wasn't like this in my day...

How often can you go out onto a road today and expect not to see a car driving past? Not very often. Rush hour has almost become a 'rush 2 hours' as people who leave early and late to avoid the rush are now part of a mini rush of their own. At this rate there will be a 'rush 24 hours' with a constant queue of traffic all day every day sat beeping their horns from your front door all the way to your office.

So what happened in the last 40 years?

In the 70's the status quo was for men to be the only ones who could drive and they would drive to work for a regular 9-5 shift. Then they would drive the family around at the weekend and that was it. Over the next decade or so, women started learning to drive and they would then either take the car all day and the man would get the train or bus to work, or she would drive him to work and then drive it around through the day.

Then all the people who would take the train were hit with poor and unreliable trains and increased train ticket prices. This meant that more of them were driven on to the roads and would purchase a new or a second car to allow them to get to work affordably.

Also the standard 9-5 has slowly been augmented over the years, meaning that the majority of people are starting and finishing any time between 7am and 7pm. This has meant that car sharing is almost impossible for many people, who have all been forced to take their own car on to the roads every day.

Another reason is that thanks to the cost of city centre living and the pleasure of living in suburbia or in the country, many people have moved further and further away from their place of work. This obviously adds to the amount of traffic further not only in city centres, but on all the trunk roads in and out of town.

The only real positive change to our road networks recently is with the adoption of software as a service logistics and implementation of greater transport management software for haulage firms which has allowed them to make their routes more efficient and has cut down the number of trucks on the road at any one time.

The only answer for our future is in flying cars. Come on science!

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