Traffic Tribulations
The traffic keeps making the headlines , but really, it is no 'news'. While traffic management is not optimal, it has not been in a while and the increased use, by the public, of cars has created a vicious circle: there is now so much traffic that a bus journey can never make sense because the bus gets stuck in traffic as much as any other car (bus lanes are not sufficiently continuous to guarantee that they truly are effective). School transport is perhaps too expensive for those on the lower scales of income so they have less incentive to use it. But the less it is used, then the more traffic is created as parents barge through traffic to try to get their children to get to school on time. The more traffic there is, the longer do journeys take, driving up prices of this important service. While tax incentives are a welcome introduction, the current incentive hardly makes up for the yearly cost of using school transport since it is only an allowable deduction, not a reba...