Young couples 'trapped in car dependency'
It must be miserable: you’ve saved for a newly-built home past the town’s ring-road, but now you're trapped too often in a metal box with wheels.You spend hours in traffic ferrying yourself and your children around because your estate has no shops; no pub; no doctor; no school; no jobs.A report says this is the buttock-numbing fate of numerous young couples.It's come about because planners allowed edge-of-town housing estates where car travel is the only option.Intriguingly, the research by a new green group – Transport for New Homes - has been backed by a motoring group, the RAC Foundation.Researchers visited more than 20 new housing developments across England in what they say is the first piece of research of...