| Comment | The plain and simple fact is that we will will need to transition away from our reliance on personal motor vehicle travel in Glasgow and more broadly across the world. This is a when question not an if and going all electric will not change that in the least.
Even if you ignore the very obvious environmental issues, which we shouldn't. The ever expanding infrastructure required for individual motor vehicle transport is simply not sustainable. It will literally bankrupt the world if we keep heading in this direction. We need denser, multi-use, cities designed primarily for people rather than vehicles. If you take the car centric US as an example. Spending on motor vehicle infrastructure has tripled since 1985, it is by FAR the most expensive thing we chose to do in most developed western countries when accounting for all the costs, it simply will not work long term. The maths don't work.
We can moan and mean mug in GlasgowLive articles all we want but it won't change the maths. Planners actually do know this, it is an open and naked fact. Which is why we still see active infrastructure and things like the LEZ coming in despite being broadly unpopular. |
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