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I just had an adventure on Google Street View dropping into random neighbourhoods, and it varies a lot by town. Some places like Leeds and Sheffield had wide roads that would have perfectly coped with a ban on pavement parking. Other places it looks impossible. Here’s a place I dropped into in Bolton. Those people would really suffer from a ban. I guess this is my main issue with it, you’re disproportionately affecting the less well-off. The middle class will be fine with their driveways and spacious estates.

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would making it easier for people not to use their cars help? Better public transport, closer services etc? Do a lot of people have multiple cars just in case they sometimes need it.

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Hopefully public transport helps, that’s the dream. Maybe self driving electric cars make taxis cheap and people stop owning cars, who knows! I wouldn’t expect the people on the crowded terraced estates to be the multiple car owning type, maybe two cars per household.

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Not even “just in case”. Where I live, there is one bus into town at 9:30, and a second at 3:30. Completely unhelpful for anyone who wanted to get to work.

We need significant better public transport for it to even be am option, at the moment its just a token.

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