Sounds fair enough. They should introduce some kind of tax for it, call it say, Road Tax.
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Hang on, don’t we already pay road tax? Don’t we already pay roughly 200 quid a year to be allowed to drive on the currently un-coned bits of available road? Hmmm?
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I heard roughly 23 billion a year is raised in road tax and something like 2 billion is actually invested back into the road network. Now, I’m no Dr Booth but even I know that 23 billion - 2 billion leaves a lot of money left…
sigh - “Road charges will put some people off driving entirely, cut congestion and carbon emissions”
Very very few I reckon - I tend to believe that people use cars because they erm, want to GO PLACES. Stop them going places, and the whole economy suffers as everyone sits at home and watches “I want to be a celebrity, get me on tv” and turns into a huge cholesterol ridden couch potato.
Did the rises in petrol prices ever stop people? Nope - because people have lives which involve going to places.
I’ll stop ranting now, I promise …
Can I rant please? I have been basically priced out of Cheshire (by the runaway house prices), which is where I work. To get the accomodation we need with a family we have gone to North West Derbyshire. Is there a bus to get me to work? No there is not. No wait. There is. I can take a bus from Whaley to Macc and then change for Knutsford. Total time is 2 hours and the total cost is £15. That’s one way. Believe it or not, I intend to drive to work. Seriously, if there was a direct bus that did not cost the earth, I would use it.
Another point. In these calcluations that people come up with they say, yes, well you have not factored in the cost of buyin ghte car and its depreciation etc. FFS! We still NEED cars even for weekends, so that cost will still occur anyway. Sheesh!
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