It is neither practical nor acceptable to limit car ownership or to penalise car usage excessively. A more fundamental solution is needed.

Transport policy needs to include a wide range of factors, such as the changing patterns of employment and work, the size and design of towns and cities, and population distribution patterns. Two of the main causes of road congestion today are: firstly, the prevalence of long commuting distances to work, and secondly, the excessive reliance on car based transport within urban areas. Also see section on Housing and National Planning.

Quite apart from the question of road congestion levels, which have resulted in traffic speeds in our larger cities often no faster than those at the beginning of the century, daily work-commuting patterns now consume large amounts of natural and human resources - energy, materials, time, and money.

However, new technology and changing patterns of work in the nineties mean that much of this waste is no longer necessary. The spread of information technology, for example, means that people can now increasingly work from home while businesses can often organise their enterprises in ways which no longer require a single large centrally located facility. Both these factors can help to reduce the need for excessive travel by the workforce. The Natural Law Party will encourage and give further impetus to these trends.