What is the total amount of cars currently present in the UK?

Question

Because they are everywhere you look! In every city, town and village and all the roads in between are endless parades of cars. It really can't be good for the environment. More people should use bikes, public transport or walk places for the good of the planet. It's environment verses convenience.

Answer 1

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About 70 million...

In England 27 per cent of households do not own a car or van while 44 per cent of households own just one, 24 per cent own two, 4 per cent own three and 1 per cent own four or more.

The patterns and proportions are similar in Wales where 26 per cent do not own a car, 45 per cent own one, 23 per cent own two, 4 per cent own three and 1 per cent own four or more.

In Inner London over half of households have no car. Outside London, 48 per cent of households in Liverpool and Manchester do not own cars and 45 per cent in Newcastle do not.

In contrast, 6.3 per cent of the South East region own three cars and 2.1 per cent own four or more while in the local authority area of South Bucks one in ten households own three cars and one in 25 own four or more.

The proportion of households owning one car is almost unchanged between 1991 and 2001 at about 44 per cent. However the proportion not owning a car has declined since 1991 from 32 per cent to 27 per cent and the proportion owning two cars has increased from 20 per cent to 23 per cent and three cars and more from 4 per cent to 6 per cent.

Men commit nine times as many motoring offences as women in England and Wales. In 2002 men committed 97 per cent of dangerous driving offences, 94 per cent of offences causing death or bodily harm, 89 per cent of drink or drug driving offences, 85 per cent of careless driving offences, 83 per cent of speeding offences, 84 per cent of offences involving neglect of traffic signs and directions or of pedestrian rights and 77 per cent of obstruction, waiting and parking offences. A

Answer 2

Too many! Britain looks more like a car park than a country. Most towns and cities are ugly and inhuman. Shopping takes place in godawful sheds out in the suburbs surrounded by acres of ugly parking space simply because it's easy for motorists. Motorways and arterial roads rape the countryside. Anyone without a car is sneered at as a social outcast. People can only go anywhere or do anything if they can do it by car.....Cars are drugs and most people are junkies. And how much is spent merely on transport for God's sake! It's insane.

Answer 3

cars are toys, granted, but they're very nice toys - even I have one.

Public transport sucks - I live in a smallish, but not insignificant town about 10 miles west of Oxford (yeah, where they used to make the blankets).

It takes me about an hour if I want to be environmentally friendly and ride the train into London, but takes me twice as long just to get to the train station in the first place.

Soddit, I'll just drive and be politically incorrect.

Answer 4

There are far too many as far as I'm concerned.
All the exhaust fumes are bad for us asthmatics.

Answer 5

four...and mine is the best !