New motorway service station

[taxman]

Just build the thing and create a good few jobs. Jobs v Trees, no contest is it really.

 

Angel1.

 

 

A few jobs v the oxygen giving lungs of the planet really is no contest.

[Bob Arctor]

The days of motorway services are probably numbered anyway. Once we have fully automatic cars we'll be able to turn the front seats around and have a picnic meal in the car, motorway services stops will mainly be about using the toilet. We won't even need a coffee to keep us awake.

[foxydebs]

We will always require some form of motorway services as on long drives people will always need the toilet.

[Guest busdriver1]

The days of motorway services are probably numbered anyway. Once we have fully automatic cars we'll be able to turn the front seats around and have a picnic meal in the car, motorway services stops will mainly be about using the toilet. We won't even need a coffee to keep us awake.

 

Yes they are perfect - not. Check the news of the Uber ones in the states that are all off the road after an accident.

Edited March 26, 2017 by busdriver1

[Bob Arctor]

Yes they are perfect - not. Check the news of the Uber ones in the states that are all off the road after an accident.

 

I'm talking about in 20 or 30 years time, not now.

[dutch]

We will always require some form of motorway services as on long drives people will always need the toilet.

 

Cut down some precious ancient forest so you can go to the toilet.

[Padders]

Cut down some precious ancient forest so you can go to the toilet.

 

yep. there ancient, so what.

[dutch]

yep. there ancient, so what.

 

Someone needs to go to the loo or want a sarnie, so what.

Some of these old forest around today are rather precious. When we wee our pants we can wash them, cut these forests and they are gone.

Edited March 27, 2017 by dutch

[Padders]

Someone needs to go to the loo or want a sarnie, so what.

Some of these old forest around today are rather precious. When we wee our pants we can wash them, cut these forests and they are gone.

 

I don"t see why there "precious" there just old trees which will die anyway. new trees are being planted everyday.

[Flexo]

The days of motorway services are probably numbered anyway. Once we have fully automatic cars we'll be able to turn the front seats around and have a picnic meal in the car, motorway services stops will mainly be about using the toilet. We won't even need a coffee to keep us awake.

 

Motorway service stops will also become about electric vehicle fast charging, with service station operators seeing it as a great way to get people to stick around for half an hour while they get an 80% charge (e.g. Ecotricity's or Tesla's existing fast chargers).

 

The Applegreen proposal on some scrub land at J33 is right next door to a big electricity substation.....

 

The site up the road where they want to chop down ancient woodland is not.