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The problems arent caused by big cars, fat people or parking spaces and nor are they naturally occuring. They're the result of planners, local authorities and councils constantly restricting roadspace. Chicanes, bus lanes, pedestrianiation schemes, speed bumps, road narrowing, yellow lines, pathetic speed limits, cycle lanes etc so the causes are very active because they dont happen by themselves. Ive noticed car parks of 25 years old which havent been touched since they were built have bigger spaces than brand new ones. The road network hasnt been updated to accomodate extra traffic and rising car use, we're around 30 years behind where we should be due to previous Governments pulling the plug on more than 100 road building schemes just to appease some nimby villagers and the odd neanderthal farmer.
The country is perfectly big enough but when you cram 60million people into 9% of it (only 9% of the UK is built on which is low when compared with similar sized european neighbours) you obviously encounter some problems. Only the UK believes the road system of 50 years ago should be adequate and any congestion problems are the fault of people having the audacity to use it, when everywhere else in the world thinks 'lets improve the road network then.' But not us. Oh no. Far too simple.
And by the way i could fit into a G-Wiz if i wanted to but i dont, i have a large car, Jaguar S-Type which is over 16 feet long and 6 feet wide which is bigger than a Grand Cherokee. Its not my fault most towns dont make spaces big enough for it, they could easily accomodate it if they wanted to but they'd rather spend the money on flower baskets and road narrowing instead so i just park/abandon it wherever i wish.
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