This should be made to cut both ways: "Butchers banned from selling pork medallions after customer's jacket suffers grease stains"

How could the public possibly have got the idea they need a big car to be good parents? It's a mystery

(Insert hot dog guy meme here)

Wooo! Well done

Two things can be true at once, and I think there's enough blame to go around so that as we look askance at the oil companies we can also squint at the individuals who gleefully do what those oil companies want when they should know better...

The owner of our local Japanese restaurant drives one. That must be some HEAVY sushi they sell

Yes, and part of this should be some auditing of how many of today's car trips (often with 1 occupant) probably don't need to be car trips (with 1 occupant). We've a regrettable tendency to see today's levels of driving as fixed and inevitable, and that thinking is very clear in the AV discussions

Yeah, this was what our paper calculated - in lots of detail!

At some level, many people want to have it all: they want to live in the countryside but have easy access to cinemas and hairdressers; or they live in cities (where those things exist) but want to drive cars from place to place as though they're in the countryside

Indeed, you could go further in many cases: why are you actively opposing initiatives that would help you drive less

Look at the opening summary here: www.transportenvironment.org/uploads/file...

Agreed. Although I'd suggest that cultural norms about the primacy of driving are an essential precondition for the issues to emerge in the way they do. It takes a culture that indulges driving and hides its negatives for people to do it non-reluctantly after housing policy pushes them out of town

Exactly. And are all those people reluctantly driving the smallest cars they can find, and allowing people outside cars to travel easily and safely? Or - just perhaps - are many of them buying SUVs and getting angry if they have to let someone cross the road?

Lots. Including messaging people before they move into rural areas, informing them how they'll be isolated there, and the implications of this

Interesting your mind goes to (further) subsidising drivers. Mine would have gone to at least making oil more expensive, and incentivising the battery from the other direction