simplesleeper

30mph changing to 20mph makes a huge difference to journey time... And london drivers hate it to the point most of them ignore it.

Doesn't work on mobile :(

what is stopping you from buying and reading books on cryptography, number theory, security protocols etc?

why couldn't you? of course you can

This is just the age old question of nominalism vs realism

If you try driving in Italy like you do in the UK, people will use their horn. Then you will understand.

That's what organisational transformations are for

Not true at all. If you have tech skills, you will never run out of job opportunities in the UK

have some compassion and screw the rules

Britain runs 20% of Europe's rail journeys. It has the least accidents and deaths of passengers and staff. It is considered the most improved rail network year on year since 1997. It has some of the lowest fares if you book far in advance (and count the cost of subsidisation for foreign fares).

I work for Transport for London and I advise people to use citymapper rather than the official TfL tools.

While more infrastructure will indeed just create new wardrop equilibriums (and potentially sometimes make things worse - see Braess' paradox), banning cars is also a bad idea.

Frankly, cars are the most efficient means for individuals to travel - they may result in poor traffic flow on some single links, but otherwise they have huge benefits.

It is also worth noting that banning cars will affect the poor the most negatively. While poor people use cars less as a percentage of their population (about 9/10 the percentage of the amount that the rich use them), there are far more of them. Poor people are often the ones who have to manage multiple cases - a family and a job, a few jobs etc and often are unable to love near their workplace, or to find a (decent) job near their suburban homes. All of this means that the value of a car is much higher for them, as it can be the means for them to manage their more complex life scenarios efficiently (see "Disrupting Mobility" for more details - it's a great book)