Given the average age of Conservative voters, perhaps they wish to reinact their old memories of 3rd class carriages in the Victorian era...
Ho ho ho!
However, according to Ipsos MORI:-
"In 2001 18-24 year olds were more pro-Conservative and less pro-Labour than 25-34 year olds although 35-54 year olds and voters 55+ were increasingly likely to vote Conservative and decreasingly likely to vote Labour.
In 2005 18-24 year olds were again more likely than 25-34 year olds to vote Conservative and but both age groups were equally likely to vote Labour. Again 35-54 year olds and voters 55+ were increasingly likely to vote Conservative and decreasingly likely to vote Labour.
The 2010 data do illustrate that , broadly speaking, the likelihood of voting Conservative increased with age: 30% of voters aged 18- 24 voted Conservative compared with 44% of voters 65+."
Commentators put this down to the socialising factors prevalent when people approached adulthood, rather than any actual appeal of any one party to a particular age group, though there is also a tendency for voters to become more "set in their ways" as they get older. Hence the quote from Georges
Clemenceau (1841-1929): "Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of
want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head."
As for the article itself, much of it is saying that the various transport modes should play to their strengths, an approach few would disagree with. The problem comes when people like the author either don't understand or positively distort those strengths.
Wonders of secondary modern education system me thinks not.
