That’s commuting for you; it’s too busy, too noisy, too dirty, and too impersonal.
If motorists and cyclists knew each other by name they would be polite, give way, and get on, but everyone is a stranger.
We all travel too far, not just by car but, train and plane.
It’s a shame the plasterer can’t work locally and in turn shop at the corner shop, and get his new sink fitted by the plumber who lives at the end of the road. And go on holiday to a UK resort. Oh, and their children are walked to the local school.
Instead,
The plasterer travels 50 miles every day to another city to work where a plasterer from that city travels the 50 miles back in the opposite direction for his work. The local grocer goes out of business because everyone’s commuting and not there to shop in the day, so the villagers have to travel to the town to shop. The Children from the village are driven 15miles to a school in another village because it’s a better school, and the children from that village have to go to a school in the town as there is no room in their local school. And we Holiday all over the world sometimes many times a year.
No wonder we are all moody and aggressive toward each other and polluting our world.
I have no answers; we can’t simply turn the clock back, it’s just the throw away, disposable, too convenient, too lazy, age we live in.
Life is too easy and we expect too much.