I really like Simon Wilson but his latest argument is bonkers. 

In his column out today he’s urging bosses to scrap work car parks. 

To force employees to find another way to get to work.  

He’s happy for some people to still get car parks:  

Women who work at night. 

Shift workers with no option but to drive. 

People with mobility issues and so on. 

But if you live within 5k’s of your workplace, he wants you to lose your car park. 

To break your car dependency. 

This is the argument of privilege. 

This is someone who doesn’t have young dependent children. 

Who earns enough to work one job. 

And who works normal-length office days. 

5k’s doesn’t sound like a lot but it’s actually an hour’s walk if there isn’t a decent bus route. 

Alot of parents, especially those working long hours, can’t afford that extra time either side of their working day. 

More than ever the thing we are most short on is time. 

Our entire lives are geared towards finding more and more efficient ways of doing things:  

Cars to get places faster, phones that enable email 24 hours a day, heat and eat meals. 

It’s counter intuitive to then ask people to switch to something much, much less efficient. 

When your whole life is aimed at getting as much as possible done in the shortest time so you can have some time with the kids. 

You’re not really going to willingly opt to take five or six times longer getting to and from work are you?  

If your boss cancels your car park, you’ll just probably pay for a car park nearby yourself, if you can afford it.  

I know Simon Wilson's coming from a good place of wanting to protect the planet. 

But this is the wrong way to create change. 

If he and others who care this much want to convince time-poor Kiwi workers, they need to provide an equal or better alternative. 

Not create another problem.