LETTER: Former planning chief's vision for Winchester is one of a civilised city
The ersatz indignation at persecuted motorists needs elementary scrutiny. Motorists are massively subsidised – to more than three times the total tax and duty take on their activity. Subsidy in Winchester includes public parking that comes nowhere near paying the resource cost of its provision, and the externalising costs placed on public health, on public transport by impeding more efficient access, on shops and businesses through reducing the total access of people and the costs of occupy...
Source: hampshirechronicle.co.uk