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timnoyce 
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 Topic: Road pricingPosted: 30 Jan 07 at 9:13am |
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you think you're so funny don't you James
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tornado435
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Posted: 30 Jan 07 at 7:20am |
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I am more than happy to drive a small Car redback, just don't moan when My Tornado and trailer push it around the motorway and the only way i can stop is by crashing into you Very tongue in cheek but to do my hobby I need a bigger vehicle. Granted a lot of time I am in it by myself, but thats what I have to do. I pay more in road tax, fuel and insurance for my big van. If you want to stop congestion get rid of the gippos with their pony traps that seem to have taken over the area around Datchet. |
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phantom_iv
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Posted: 29 Jan 07 at 10:09pm |
Can't say I agree. The number of cars on the roads has increased hugely in the last few years, the road capacity hasn't. I'm willing to bet the volume of traffic on the roads will continue to increase in the absense of a viable alternative. So as we're going to have more cars anyway, we may as well construct a road network that's up to the job. |
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redback
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Posted: 29 Jan 07 at 9:52pm |
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I don't like it but we've got to reduce some of this congestion - it takes longer to get to the sailing club! Can we all drive small cars please - well space efficient ones. I guess if you have to move half a dozen people a MPV is the right vehicle but to move 2 or 3 or 4 a Golf sized vehicle is big enough surely. OK a Mondeo then but something with a 4ltr engine that still isn't very fast, is built like a truck and handles like a truck doesn't seem right and would make me blush with embarasssment. I would enjoy a 5litre V12 that does 200 mph though - a bit akin to a Laser 4000 I'd suggest. Mines red too! |
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Medway Maniac
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Posted: 29 Jan 07 at 12:30pm |
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Problem with that petition is that it asks at the end for congestion to be eased by more road building. Can't agree with that either: new/wider roads = more traffic. But road pricing is a complete nonsense, like ID cards and all the other things trimming our freedom, bit by bit. Did our goverment study in eastern Europe, pre-1989?
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Tessa
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Posted: 28 Jan 07 at 8:40pm |
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I don't think it could be implemented in the first place. I/QUOTE] Try this: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article334686.ece
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CurlyBen
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Posted: 28 Jan 07 at 8:29pm |
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Can I be cynical and say that petrol doesn't record your movements and speed? Though I believe petrol duty would be reduced according to the proposal (not too far though - I think the EU sets some level, and hence the ending of red diesel for marine use). Obviously, it's far easier and simpler to tax someone with a device monitoring precisely what their car is doing than to tax petrol!
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phantom_iv
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Posted: 28 Jan 07 at 5:33pm |
Simple. This way the govenment gets to tax us twice for using the roads. Ooops, we already pay road tax, make that three times :( And that's before you include congestion charges etc.. |
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FreshScum
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Posted: 28 Jan 07 at 4:28pm |
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Road pricng surely already exists in the form of tax on petrol. I'm sure there must be a difference,(or how would the Gvmnt justify it?!) but I can't see it. |
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MRJP BUZZ 585
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Posted: 14 Jan 07 at 9:32pm |
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Oh dear.............
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