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The latter might preserve a lot more of the rich, organic, intangible activity that is valuable, but it is the sort of activity that does not trigger any signals that might be recognised by urban planners looking down, godlike, on a situation.
A particular issue is the application of payments to historical activity. Some farms receive support payments for activity that they carried out 20 years ago.
If people were reliant on public transport, there was therefore no way that they could engage in the evening activities. I have often said that if we get transport right, we can probably get attendance at cultural activities right.