Date: 2024-11-15 12:13 pm (UTC)
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5. It's been time for decades!

8 If 'tis so, then they were some of the kindest people I ever met unlike some religious groups.

Date: 2024-11-15 01:20 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] simont
#5 struck me as a very impressive counterexample to Betteridge's Law!

Date: 2024-11-15 01:12 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] bens_dad
7. Misleading sub-head ?

pedestrians spend more money than people arriving by car ...

Our high streets don't have "drive-thru's" and most high streets shops don't have their own car parks, so this line misses the point. At first I thought this was about people who walked to the high street.

Kendal still has a high street and it was pedestrianized twenty plus years ago*, but cycles can go both ways and buses and some other motorized vehicles can go one way, so it isn't plain sailing for pedestrians. I do remember visiting the greengrocer when the high street was still the trunk road to the Lake District, and being able to park on the streets just off it.

I suppose my real problem with the article is that my issues are more about the hassle of both parking and getting the bus (cycling is usually my preferred solution to that conundrum) and I see the issue as more about the relationship between where people live and the high street than whether you can drive through it.

*by someone I was at school with.

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