Don’t think many people are driving for fun tbh, we drive because we have to
rhetoricalcalligraph on
Return to work from home, reduce petrol demand, price drops. Less petrol purchased, less tax revenue to the Exchequer, budgets get cut.
The situation is fucked either way, I implore anyone who reads any thing like this from any news source, to immediately flush the information down the toilet, and go listen to a song you like instead.
ltepic on
Yeah let me just take your shitty overpriced public transport and add two hours on top of my commute to work with the possibility that the transport will be cancelled lol.
Fish_Minger on
Give it a few weeks and the roads will only have smug EV drivers on them.
MoffTanner on
Planning to go to Disneyland soon, driving is like a quarter the price of the train which is a similar price to flying despite the flight being half the time!
thrillho111 on
Don’t drive, but also rely on extortionate public transport that’s either delayed/cancelled/going through maintenance and get back to the office 2+ days a week.
NoSwordfish1978 on
Thanks that’s incredibly helpful “advice” given the shitty (and overpriced) state of public transport in large parts of the country.
Farticus79 on
That’s fiiiiiiine. I’ll spend 2 hours getting three buses to where it normally takes me 30 mins to drive to and I’ll pay through the nose for a train seat I probably won’t get to sit in because the train is too crowded.
rlf1301 on
Is there an economic case to be made for lowering train fares? As in, would their profits actually increase through higher useage?Â
peepooplop on
The media are doing everything they can to encourage panic buying.
Educational-Fig3174 on
Of course this happens right after I pass my driving test ffs
GainsAndPastries on
I can see WFH being used for those that simply cannot afford the petrol
clashmar on
This is literally what Jimmy Carter said during the Iranian revolution.
Parshath_ on
On one side of the scale: having to get 3 buses packed with people coughing, and two weirdos with mental issues causing trouble and making the journey even more miserable and intimidating for everyone, at the sound of someone’s loud Tiktok Reels. 2h journey each way, and roll 20 for a flu.
On the other side: more expensive, but it’s just me and people I want, plus I get to pick my music. 30 minutes.
SpyChinchilla on
No problem, I’ll just get the bus. Oh wait they just canned my route to work.
I’ll get the train. Oh wait there’s no station remotely close to me, despite living in densely populated suburbs.
I’ll get that new Leeds – Bradford tram system. Oh wait they just pushed that back again.
I’ll take my bike. Oh wait, there’s no safe cycling infrastructure to use.
I guess I’ll drive.
mindfulparrot on
It may be nice for the government to push companies to either help with partial subsidies into mandatory travel expenses or fewer mandatory office days. Most work places will just say ‘tough’ when much of the role can be done from home. I think people should at least be given the option
Dial-Appreciator on
Brilliant, just as my car needs renewing. Maybe electric is the way to go?
WastelandOfConfusion on
You can all thank the bright orange spray-paint man for this.
Nuthetes on
Looks like we’re gonna get the same sort of people who panic bought all the toilet paper rolling up to every garage in the country with their jerry cans to hog it all. And ust like how the bog roll was panic bought by the type of people who never usually wipe their arse properly anyway, the fuel will be panic bought by the type of people who never venture out their home town.
cookiesnooper on
Instead of telling people to drive less go and tell the pedo in the White House to stop bombing Iran just because Israle told him to do it.
InfamousEbb5680 on
It’s a grim reminder that the people who can’t just stop driving are the ones who’ll feel this squeeze the hardest.
Ill-Case-6048 on
You mean like when the made people work from home halfed the traffic cleared up pollution then as soon as they proved it can be done …they made everyone go back to work… now that a pedo is starting a war to stay in power its back to asking the poor to bend over one more time meanwhile the rich are just carrying on.it doesn’t effect them at all
RayGLA on
Not to worry, we’ve got cheap and reliable public transport
HugsandHate on
‘Drive less, eat less, use less water and heating, go out less. You know what. That whole life thing? Maybe just do less of that.’
agdnan on
WE NEED BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE. We need to go full Dutch. It would make us healthier and we could all save an insane amount of money.
AlchemyFire on
I drive because public transport is shit, and trains are too expensive
NotOK1955 on
Thanks to a megalomaniac in America, who started a war with no real plan or exit strategy, the WHOLE world is going to suffer.
Limp_Grab4142 on
well if they invested in public transport like other EU countries back in the 00 then we wouldnt have to say this would we???? train tickets are expensive, train routes are shit and frankly we dont have enough of it because well government thought everyone would drive.
Desperate_Caramel_10 on
Can’t even use e-scooters for short trips because miserable pensioners have decided to add them to the big list of things they don’t like.
OnlyMeFFS on
I can’t drive less than I am now…. I don’t have a car.
Kiwizoo on
Funny how incompetent decisions by our elected representatives all around the world only ever seem to benefit the rich and powerful, while the rest of us enable it day after day and manage the shit that comes with it. Revolution anyone?
Weetabix1232001 on
Yeah my work 25miles away will be easy to get to without driving
Spiritual_Alfalfa_32 on
Our local morons are emptying the pumps Covid style. Toilet paper next
KebabAnnhilator on
Maybe stop all your crony commercial landlords advocating a return to the office then
CaptMelonfish on
crude spiked to 116 last night but is now down to just under a dollar a barrel.
wasn’t this bad since 22.
here’s hoping the market gets itself under control soon or we’re all going to be feeling it.
ash_ninetyone on
A lot of people drive out of necessity and convenience, not choice.
Trains can cost a fortune depending on where you travel. Buses aren’t always reliable, some are noisy and smelly. Depending on where you’re going, they can be pretty inconvenient.
Most people I’d imagine would drive for three hours if they could instead of 2 or 3 changes on trains and hoping everything runs strictly to a plan.
Ok fine if you’re doing a school run, or going somewhere local that you walk or cycle to, if your neighbourhoods are designed to be convenient. Less so if you’re on an estate built in the 90s to 00s where we decided they should all have only one or two access roads and be cul-de-sacs everywhere so no bus can get down it and the nearest GP is at an hours walk away.
ProperPizza on
What the hell do they think people do all day? What do they think people drive for?
‘Drive less?’ good lord, say you’re out of touch in fewer words why don’t you.
blackskies4646 on
Cool. I’ll just use that public transport that barely exists outside of major cities and doesn’t operate at the time required for me to get to work even on a weekday, forget Saturdays and Sundays lmao.
Some people really need to pull their heads from their arse.
FantasticGas1836 on
Am I the only one that will be out of the streets celebrating when Trump is 6ft under?
Correct-Junket-1346 on
I live in a southern town where most methods of travel have slowly been eroded by terrible mismanagement, piss poor planning and overpricing services.
We drive because it’s the only feasible way out of a now isolated town.
NGeoTeacher on
If only we had focused on ensuring high quality, affordable public transit, plus affordable housing close to where people work, over the past however may decades rather than building crappy, car-centric housing estates that lack infrastructure.
Plus provide more flexibility for people who could work from home, but aren’t allowed to be lobbyists want to keep businesses renting offices.
CDHmajora on
Have the government actually seen how shit public transport is though?
Especially in the north. For me a 14 minute drive to work takes nearly 2 hours as i have to divert on one bus to fucking oldham then to work from there. No direct public transport route.
_a_m_s_m on
This could be interesting, the oil crisis of the 70’s was a major push for the Netherlands to pursue bicycles as a method of transport.
-Pannier racks & bags can easily carry ~30kg, many are also water resistant.
-Cargo bikes can be used to transport more goods in urban areas.
-Cargo bikes are frequently used to transport kids in the Netherlands, so could also help out families.
steak_bake_surprise on
The great panic buying narrative has finally arrived at the media.
One-Picture8604 on
Perhaps the parents who live by me could start by not insisting on driving their kids half a mile to the school and insisting on parking right outside.
Ashamed_Painting_582 on
Everyone should be driving less or not at all, war or not.
Parker_Borders283739 on
Even when petrol was expensive as hell when the Ukraine conflict erupted it was way cheaper to drive to work then it was to commute. It’s like £15 a day now isn’t it in London?
Both-Mud-4362 on
So are companies going to start allowing for more WFH?
Ok-Witness4724 on
So businesses that insist on in person for jobs that can be 100% done remotely are double dickheads?
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Don’t think many people are driving for fun tbh, we drive because we have to
Return to work from home, reduce petrol demand, price drops. Less petrol purchased, less tax revenue to the Exchequer, budgets get cut.
The situation is fucked either way, I implore anyone who reads any thing like this from any news source, to immediately flush the information down the toilet, and go listen to a song you like instead.
Yeah let me just take your shitty overpriced public transport and add two hours on top of my commute to work with the possibility that the transport will be cancelled lol.
Give it a few weeks and the roads will only have smug EV drivers on them.
Planning to go to Disneyland soon, driving is like a quarter the price of the train which is a similar price to flying despite the flight being half the time!
Don’t drive, but also rely on extortionate public transport that’s either delayed/cancelled/going through maintenance and get back to the office 2+ days a week.
Thanks that’s incredibly helpful “advice” given the shitty (and overpriced) state of public transport in large parts of the country.
That’s fiiiiiiine. I’ll spend 2 hours getting three buses to where it normally takes me 30 mins to drive to and I’ll pay through the nose for a train seat I probably won’t get to sit in because the train is too crowded.
Is there an economic case to be made for lowering train fares? As in, would their profits actually increase through higher useage?Â
The media are doing everything they can to encourage panic buying.
Of course this happens right after I pass my driving test ffs
I can see WFH being used for those that simply cannot afford the petrol
This is literally what Jimmy Carter said during the Iranian revolution.
On one side of the scale: having to get 3 buses packed with people coughing, and two weirdos with mental issues causing trouble and making the journey even more miserable and intimidating for everyone, at the sound of someone’s loud Tiktok Reels. 2h journey each way, and roll 20 for a flu.
On the other side: more expensive, but it’s just me and people I want, plus I get to pick my music. 30 minutes.
No problem, I’ll just get the bus. Oh wait they just canned my route to work.
I’ll get the train. Oh wait there’s no station remotely close to me, despite living in densely populated suburbs.
I’ll get that new Leeds – Bradford tram system. Oh wait they just pushed that back again.
I’ll take my bike. Oh wait, there’s no safe cycling infrastructure to use.
I guess I’ll drive.
It may be nice for the government to push companies to either help with partial subsidies into mandatory travel expenses or fewer mandatory office days. Most work places will just say ‘tough’ when much of the role can be done from home. I think people should at least be given the option
Brilliant, just as my car needs renewing. Maybe electric is the way to go?
You can all thank the bright orange spray-paint man for this.
Looks like we’re gonna get the same sort of people who panic bought all the toilet paper rolling up to every garage in the country with their jerry cans to hog it all. And ust like how the bog roll was panic bought by the type of people who never usually wipe their arse properly anyway, the fuel will be panic bought by the type of people who never venture out their home town.
Instead of telling people to drive less go and tell the pedo in the White House to stop bombing Iran just because Israle told him to do it.
It’s a grim reminder that the people who can’t just stop driving are the ones who’ll feel this squeeze the hardest.
You mean like when the made people work from home halfed the traffic cleared up pollution then as soon as they proved it can be done …they made everyone go back to work… now that a pedo is starting a war to stay in power its back to asking the poor to bend over one more time meanwhile the rich are just carrying on.it doesn’t effect them at all
Not to worry, we’ve got cheap and reliable public transport
‘Drive less, eat less, use less water and heating, go out less. You know what. That whole life thing? Maybe just do less of that.’
WE NEED BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE. We need to go full Dutch. It would make us healthier and we could all save an insane amount of money.
I drive because public transport is shit, and trains are too expensive
Thanks to a megalomaniac in America, who started a war with no real plan or exit strategy, the WHOLE world is going to suffer.
well if they invested in public transport like other EU countries back in the 00 then we wouldnt have to say this would we???? train tickets are expensive, train routes are shit and frankly we dont have enough of it because well government thought everyone would drive.
Can’t even use e-scooters for short trips because miserable pensioners have decided to add them to the big list of things they don’t like.
I can’t drive less than I am now…. I don’t have a car.
Funny how incompetent decisions by our elected representatives all around the world only ever seem to benefit the rich and powerful, while the rest of us enable it day after day and manage the shit that comes with it. Revolution anyone?
Yeah my work 25miles away will be easy to get to without driving
Our local morons are emptying the pumps Covid style. Toilet paper next
Maybe stop all your crony commercial landlords advocating a return to the office then
crude spiked to 116 last night but is now down to just under a dollar a barrel.
wasn’t this bad since 22.
here’s hoping the market gets itself under control soon or we’re all going to be feeling it.
A lot of people drive out of necessity and convenience, not choice.
Trains can cost a fortune depending on where you travel. Buses aren’t always reliable, some are noisy and smelly. Depending on where you’re going, they can be pretty inconvenient.
Most people I’d imagine would drive for three hours if they could instead of 2 or 3 changes on trains and hoping everything runs strictly to a plan.
Ok fine if you’re doing a school run, or going somewhere local that you walk or cycle to, if your neighbourhoods are designed to be convenient. Less so if you’re on an estate built in the 90s to 00s where we decided they should all have only one or two access roads and be cul-de-sacs everywhere so no bus can get down it and the nearest GP is at an hours walk away.
What the hell do they think people do all day? What do they think people drive for?
‘Drive less?’ good lord, say you’re out of touch in fewer words why don’t you.
Cool. I’ll just use that public transport that barely exists outside of major cities and doesn’t operate at the time required for me to get to work even on a weekday, forget Saturdays and Sundays lmao.
Some people really need to pull their heads from their arse.
Am I the only one that will be out of the streets celebrating when Trump is 6ft under?
I live in a southern town where most methods of travel have slowly been eroded by terrible mismanagement, piss poor planning and overpricing services.
We drive because it’s the only feasible way out of a now isolated town.
If only we had focused on ensuring high quality, affordable public transit, plus affordable housing close to where people work, over the past however may decades rather than building crappy, car-centric housing estates that lack infrastructure.
Plus provide more flexibility for people who could work from home, but aren’t allowed to be lobbyists want to keep businesses renting offices.
Have the government actually seen how shit public transport is though?
Especially in the north. For me a 14 minute drive to work takes nearly 2 hours as i have to divert on one bus to fucking oldham then to work from there. No direct public transport route.
This could be interesting, the oil crisis of the 70’s was a major push for the Netherlands to pursue bicycles as a method of transport.
[Given that 70% of journeys are under 5 miles](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-travel-survey-2024/nts-2024-mode-share-and-multi-modal-trips), with the right leadership, this journey length could be a huge cost, carbon & time saving for country.
This part is for the British exceptionalism enthusiasts:
-Gears & E-bikes have been invented for getting up hills easier.
-Water proof clothing such as [overtrousers](https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/100-city-cycling-rain-overtrousers-with-built-in-shoe-covers-black/169380/c382m8402040) have been invented.
-Pannier racks & bags can easily carry ~30kg, many are also water resistant.
-Cargo bikes can be used to transport more goods in urban areas.
-Cargo bikes are frequently used to transport kids in the Netherlands, so could also help out families.
The great panic buying narrative has finally arrived at the media.
Perhaps the parents who live by me could start by not insisting on driving their kids half a mile to the school and insisting on parking right outside.
Everyone should be driving less or not at all, war or not.
Even when petrol was expensive as hell when the Ukraine conflict erupted it was way cheaper to drive to work then it was to commute. It’s like £15 a day now isn’t it in London?
So are companies going to start allowing for more WFH?
So businesses that insist on in person for jobs that can be 100% done remotely are double dickheads?