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DTCwordfan | 11:31 Tue 28th Jan 2025 | Business & Finance
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Rachel, you are missing out on a huge source of tax to fill your so-called 'hole'......a friend and I were discussing this over coffee this morning.

Tax the cyclists - after all, they use the roads, create chaos, accidents, have signs put up for them and generally disrupt us all.....if on the bikes, there are over 20 mln in the UK, so £25/a bike means half a bill.....if on the riders there c.8.5 mln so a £30 charge would raise 1/4 of a bill.....

You could even fund bikes for the boys in blue to hurtle around and keep Joe Public under control and check on tax-dodgers, bikes with blue flashing lights, almost 'Q-Bikes' (remember those?)

 

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The plod can't even keep up with catching the huge numbers of untaxed/uninsured cars with unlicenced drivers at present - bikes, no chance.

My local police use cycles and trail bikes, I thought all forces did.  They have quad bikes and cars too 

Dont give her ideas!

No chance! They are all holier than thou eco lefties.

She should tax motorists a lot more, far too cheap.

TBH DTC it wont raise enough to buy the bog roll for a week in the NHS. In fact it would be impossible to enforce and probably cost gazillions in new staff to run it.

 

A good idea but limit the need for registration/taxation to city centres ie, a parallel to LEZ/ULEZ Congestion zones, where money has been spent providing lanes for cycles. Any bike within one of these zones would require a registration plate/insurance etc and would facilitate loony cyclists to be brought to account. That would allow children to learn cycling on quiet streets without the need for registration etc and, possibly, improve cycling standards. Any bikes found being ridden in retestricted zones would be immediately recycled.

This is more like something you would discuss over a 12 pint binge.

I'm up for it if you are 🍻

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