Services which don't exist but there could be demand for

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RE: Services which don't exist but there could be demand for

(24/09/2015 11:08)Dentonian Wrote:  Insurance, tax, regular servicing and MOT are fixed costs. ie. you are paying them even when the car is sat on the drive and you are paying bus (or rail) fare. Economically, that actually ENcourages car use. Breakdown and tyre failure (the reason we had to use taxis on Sun, btw) are semi-variables. If a car is properly looked after, a breakdown would be a very rare event.

They're still charges you have to pay to own a car and some of them are partly variable. For instance, a service is required less frequently if you use the car less, tyres do need replacing before the tread gets below the minimum legal level etc. Most people won't breakdown but it doesn't mean breakdown cover is something you don't need.

In an earlier post wirralbus once people without cars get jobs they'll buy one and stop using the bus, in that instance you need to take every cost in to consideration, including the loss in value of the car as it gets older.

Quote:I've not heard of any regulations about limiting parking spaces per employee as such, but would think they are more to do with the land available than any laudible, but impossible to impose restrictions on travel mode.

I just asked the owner of a recently built office block in Cheshire East about this. They legally have to produce a 'Travel plan' which allows a maximum of 43% of employees to arrive on site in their own car. The Travel plan doesn't mean the other 57% have to arrive on foot, by bike or by public transport. The plan might be for 30% of employees to park on the outskirts of an urban area and get a Park & Ride bus, car share or walk from there. The aim is to reduce pollution and congestion in towns, so possibly it doesn't apply for out-of-town workplaces but does apply to workplaces in small market towns. However, what employees actually do is a different matter.