Traffic Problems

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Finding a parking space for your car can be a challenge at any time of the year, but December’s busyness seems to heighten all the transport problems. There are so many vehicles and, it seems, so little space. Walking or public transport do sometimes offer obvious solutions, but are not always practical. It’s easy to start dreaming of simpler times, when less traffic cluttered our roads and people hurried less. But maybe there were different problems back in the ‘good old days’. In the postcard image above you can see horses and wagons all lined up greeting the express train about to arrive at the local railway station. Most horses seem to be standing quietly, no doubt used to waiting. But I wonder how they reacted to the train’s whistle as it approached the station? And just look at those wheels. I doubt there would have been much comfort bouncing along on the rough-surfaced roads. The transport solution must lie somewhere in between those simple times and today’s crazy road traffic.