According to transport experts traffic congestion costs the British economy an estimated £20 billion a year in wasted time, resources and lost business. Worse still this figure is set to rise to around £32bn by 2025.
Over the same period of time the figures suggest that drivers will have an increase of waste, of up to nearly 38% for every 1 mile travelled in the UK when compared to the same metrics for 2003.
Congestion seriously affects our economy, environment and quality of life, yet demand on the road network continues to grow. Why?
As every vehicle owner, particularly in England’s south east region, will know, traffic congestion is increasingly making everyone’s life a misery – particularly so during the inappropriately termed “rush hour”.
It’s not just the sheer frustration of being stuck in heavy traffic and being late for work (again) that is the problem. It is also the inevitable cost of burning ever more expensive fuel whilst stuck in yet another traffic jam and the associated detrimental effects to both health (mental as well as physical) and the environment.
That the growth in road usage is directly linked to immigration is yet another issue ignored by both the globalist government and the controlled media.
For the benefit of both politicians and journalists – every additional immigrant arriving in this grossly overcrowded country of ours is an actual or potential car user.
Yet with millions of immigrants expected to settle here over the next quarter of a century, the problem of traffic congestion and the effect that will have on our quality of life, can only get worse – a great deal worse in fact.
A recent report commission by the Migration Advisory Committee which examined the effect immigration is having on traffic congestion (both private and public) concluded in respect of car usage that:-
“Using a similar approach, other marginal external costs that are associated with Tier 1 and Tier 2 migrants’ car use, e.g. infrastructure damage, accidents, local air quality, and noise, are calculated and reported in Table 9-3. The values reported represent impacts per head per year. Taking into account both commute and non-commute travel, the negative impacts of Tier 1 and Tier 2 migrants’ car use per head per year (due to congestion as well as infrastructure damage, accidents, etc) are found to be in the order of –
£2760, while their total positive contributions resulting from indirect taxation are in the order of +£392 (see the last column in Table 9-4). These give a net negative in the order of -£2368 per head per year.”
In other words immigrant car usage is hugely detrimental to the British economy when calculated in fiscal terms.
Where is the sense in that?
The “mainstream” green lobby would appear to believe that there is no link between the growth in road usage, population and immigration. Clearly they would much prefer to be politically correct than environmentally right. Their blinkered bigotry, quite literally, costing us the Earth.
“Our” globalist government, predictably, claims that it can alleviate the ever worsening congestion problem through building new roads and widening existing ones. Yes, of course they can – up to a point.
Yet the government appears oblivious to the fact that we do not have an inexhaustible supply of land to facilitate an inexhaustible supply of would-be immigrants.
Furthermore, the government’s road building “solution” comes at a price to both health and the environment, a price that no rational person should be prepared to pay.
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Yes, the Green Party and others refuse to see the significant link between overpopulation, mass immigration, road (and rail) congestion and enviromental degradation for politically correct reasons. We nationalists do and we must try and get the public to understand this and to vote for us. This is potentially an excellent way to get the more intelligent and less blinkered lefties to see sense and to take a look at nationalism and realise we are not the monsters they and others think we are.