In short, there is no solution. In fact the problem has not even peaked yet.
Factors include increasing population, increasing affluence and subsequent car ownership across society, increased transience of the workforce, increased marriage failures leading to more single occupancy vehicles and all this is being forced on a road network within Manchester that is so poor, that there is hardly anywhere to park your car, let alone drive it.
One glance down any terraced street will show the problem. Some houses are barely 12 feet wide yet many have 1 or 2 cars registered that are 15 feet in length!
Any solution, and one will need to be implemented soon, is sure to cause chaos and social unrest verging on anarchy.
Whether it be car ownership is banned for anyone who cannot prove an employment requirement (and commuting into a city centre would not qualify) or a system of hyper tax to make vehicles unobtainable for the masses.
Yes there would be outrage and people would need to rebuild communities by shopping and working local, rather than feel addicted to drive like zombies to shopping malls all because big businesses are dictating that's what we should do!
It is doable, however nobody has the balls to carry it off and quite frankly we have all to a man become selfish bastards that want solutions but when asked to make sacrifices to enable those solutions would simply say no fucking way am I giving up my car!
Factors include increasing population, increasing affluence and subsequent car ownership across society, increased transience of the workforce, increased marriage failures leading to more single occupancy vehicles and all this is being forced on a road network within Manchester that is so poor, that there is hardly anywhere to park your car, let alone drive it.
One glance down any terraced street will show the problem. Some houses are barely 12 feet wide yet many have 1 or 2 cars registered that are 15 feet in length!
Any solution, and one will need to be implemented soon, is sure to cause chaos and social unrest verging on anarchy.
Whether it be car ownership is banned for anyone who cannot prove an employment requirement (and commuting into a city centre would not qualify) or a system of hyper tax to make vehicles unobtainable for the masses.
Yes there would be outrage and people would need to rebuild communities by shopping and working local, rather than feel addicted to drive like zombies to shopping malls all because big businesses are dictating that's what we should do!
It is doable, however nobody has the balls to carry it off and quite frankly we have all to a man become selfish bastards that want solutions but when asked to make sacrifices to enable those solutions would simply say no fucking way am I giving up my car!