downcurbs - right or request?

[Jeremy]

Surely the labour and materials alone are going to cost several hundred anyway? Plus a small premium for having a privilege which many others don't have. Sounds OK to me.

[Huguenot]

Not so omniprescient.

It may be that you're foreseeing future legislation, but at the moment you'll need to check the land registry, and 99 times out of 100 it stops at the pavement.

It's not always the case. If you walk down LL on the east side you'll see a clearly differentiated line between the public administered footpath and private property.

On this specific debate, I'm am surprised by how effective car advertising has been - most people now associate having a car with liberty and 'rights'.

Whether we're geriatric, have twenty kids or we're boy racers, having a car is a benefit conferred by the work of others. It's not a right. Currently car ownership creates significant damage to society, and whilst we'd fight this if it was a personal medical condition we bizarrely seem to talk about 'rights' as individuals when other people (like our children) will pay the tortuous price.

Whilst I normally don't keep badgering on this subject, I do think that 'how can I make everyone else pay for me to have vehicle convenience that contributes to their misery' is a bit 'choice'.

Drunk driving and CFC aerosols used to be seen as convenience and a 'right', but we managed to point out that glorying in the death of pedestrians and other road goers was unconscionable. I do hope that in the next decade we can communicate that car ownership sits in the same bracket.