transport

Where i live in the small village of Maulden, in the last decade I have seen a major increase in the number of cars present on the roads of the M1 motorway and the A6 that offers a direct root between Luton and Bedford. Thia is because of an increase in the availability of cars to young adults especially between the ages of 17 - 24 years of age. This is because the demand for such an item has increase, particularly for those who wish to modify these cars. a reason for such an increase is the trill and enjoyment given to the drive particularly for boys of 17 - 24 for such activities as joy-riding, which can lead to dangerous driving if the drivers do not take care. Most cars can be bought fairly cheaply on the internet using such car search engines for example "Auto Trader". Which is why they are so easily available. However in very recent years there has been a way to attempt to decrease the level of the number of cars seen on our roads. With more police patrol cars on the roads, police performing speed check in their vehicles and speed bumps to record your speed. Also there has been an increase in the number of speed and traffic cameras on the roads too especially on the A6 (4 speed cameras within 2 miles), aswell as speed humps on heavily built-up areas within Luton and Bedford and more available public transport which are cheaper to travel on nowadays such as buses and trains. There has been on the Urban-Rural Fringe of Bedford near the Retail Park a "Park N Ride" scheme that has considered another alternative way to decrease the number of cars on the roads in bedford, along with an increase in the prices of parking. Also with the increase in the prices of petrol and diesel this is another way to decrease the number of cars on the road. Even in schools, colleges and universities are trying to encourage students to find more environmentally friendly and socio-economically friendly ways of getting to school or university. Cars taxes and insurance is also on the increase and the way it is increaing it does not look likely in the recent future that it will decrease.

However this has not decrease the number of cars on the road, or it has not had an effect yet to have a considerable difference. Yet with all these mothods of decreasing the number of cars on the roads there are new ways to encourage the public to buy the cars again, with decreasing the price of petrol and diesel. Aswell as considering new alternative fuels such as bio-diverse fuels such as electric powered cars, H2O powered cars and hydrogen powered cars. BMW have started the Hydrogen Powered 7 Series cars that are alleged to be much faster and much easier to drive whilst being environmentally friendly to the Earth. Also the latest Koenigsegg which has been made to run on boi-diverse materials. Also there has been recent development on dualcarrigeways and motorways including widening on some motorways such as the M1 converting it into a 4 lane motorway instead of 3 lanes, and widening of single carrigeways particularly around the Luton and Bedford area on the A6.