This thread has some synergies with the 'travel by rail' thread earlier - in that parking around universities is becoming a major issue, for staff, students, and local residents. Yet house prices have risen to the point where staff may have to live some way out, public transport is inadequate, unsafe, and has a marginal costs way over the marginal cost of car use (since the driver already has a car, it's the marginal, not average per mile inc depreciation that counts). For excessive accommodation costs, its not just London universities, for a real eye-popping absurdity, Google "Rightmove Aberdeen".
Are academic salaries so high that individuals can choose a more expensive form of transport for the greater good? The marginal cost of car use is about 20p a mile, what's the per-mile rates on urban buses? Why does it cost more fo chauffeur 10, 20, 40 people efficiently in one vehicle rather than have them all travel seperately, inefficiently? (maybe bus drivers get paid moe than I thiought they did).
And again, high house prices must be implicated in causing a travel problem, with attendant congestion, pollution, road use rivalry, problems.
Dr Hillary Shaw
Food and Supply Chain Management Department
Harper Adams University College
Newport
Shropshire
TF10 8NB
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