Pro-bypass letters published in the Hereford Times to my recollection omit reference to the writer’s car-driving status.
Perhaps they connote non-car-driver status with a form of criminal underclass deviance?
For the record, I am a lifelong 67-year-old non-car driver, now living in Belmont, Hereford, as a senior bus pass-holding one-person householder.
I recognise that in parts of Herefordshire and some trades, car use is essential to wellbeing, including mental health, but I ask commercial TV viewers among the We Were Promised A Bypass 50 Years Ago Brigade to consider:
- The impact upon their expectations induced by an intervening barrage of “an English person’s car is their bountiful desert island” portrayals via televised car industry adverts.
- Why televised adverts for mobility aids, including car boot-friendly collapsible wheelchairs costing hundreds of pounds, are predominantly targeted at older prospective users rather than those who require mobility aids from birth?
- The impact of loss of greenery to a prospective bypass would have on noise levels and prospective stressing impacts of loss of sleep would have on long-term health.
- Why Netherlands governments have treated the rising tides risk of flooding more vitally in its transport policies than UK governments have done?
- Whether this county’s continued private car dominated infrastructure is fit for addressing climate change tipping point issues?
On a day-to-day level, I say that a long walk is essential for getting my brain into gear to really start each day as the first day of the rest of my life.
Alan Wheatley
Hereford
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