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The times, they've been a-changin'
| 题名： | The times, they've been a-changin' |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Steve Gooding |
| 作者单位： | RAC Foundation |
| 摘要： | There's something about the New Year that prompts a bit of reflection, a look back, and not necessarily just over the last 12 months. So it was that I found myself remembering the 1980s when I started working in the civil service and how different some things were back then, including attitudes to car use.My first job was in St Christopher House, a huge, not particularly tall office development on the south bank of the Thames near London Bridge. The building had a fairly small, but free, car park for staff. The catch was that it was very much first-come, first-served: if you arrived after, say, 8am you parked in a row with other cars with your handbrake off so other drivers wanting to leave before you could gently roll your car out of the way. I am not making this up.As a consequence of marrying wisely, one of my colleagues commuted to work in a Porsche, which he parked routinely in one of those rows. I wasn't even that happy about putting my Mini there, still less about parking on-street nearby (younger readers may not know that in the 80s the South Bank was mostly a stretch of deserted warehouses backing onto cobbled streets where rats sauntered around with insouciant indifference to such office workers who may have ventured out at lunchtime). |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | Highways |
| 卷： | 91 |
| 期： | 1 |
| 页码： | 9-9 |
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