Big V E D Hike Imminent......

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/2026642/car-tax-vehicle-excise-duty-changes?int_source=nba

Hopefully it's enough to get some WSS off the road.

[barry1010]

It's hellish getting my oldsters to hospital, it would be impossible without a car.

Taxi drivers tend to balk at the wheelchair, the absorbent seat pad in case of leakage and the unexpected behaviour.

Patient hospital transport is available but often means waiting 4 hours or more to come home.  I can say with confidence that people are more tolerant of a distressed toddler than a distressed oldster.

[ToraToraTora]

barry: "So many people working shifts, finishing late at night, starting very early outside the usual rush hour, including weekends. " - and so many not.

"The government spent £7.2 billion on  public  transport in 2022 - a service that doesn't meet the needs of the public." - not enough treble it, cut the work shy scum budget, increase fuel and VED for private people.

"How much would the government lose in revenue from the motorist and the car industry? " - nothing, see above

"Where is the money coming from for this Utopia where cheap public transport runs all over the country 24/7?" - cut benefits, WSS, increaee VED and fuel, possibly introduce road pricing.

"Think of the effects on our tourist and leisure industry if people can no longer bundle the kids in to the car for a day out to the seaside, countryside attraction; if retired folk can't easily go away for a few days to a seaside caravan park or cheap hotel." - I'm not baning private transport.

"You are in cloud cuckoo land" - sometimes it takes left field thinking to change things.

many countries in Europe have a much better public transport system. Our's is too car centric...and yes TGL pushed it that way, one of the things I did not agree with her on.

It's funny, normally I get attcked for being "right wing"!

 

[naomi24]

I don't think you're being attacked for being any particular 'wing' - but because your ideas are ill-considered and unworkable.

[ToraToraTora]

it works all over Europe.

[naomi24]

Public transport works in cities abroad and between cities abroad but rural areas are still off the beaten track - for obvious reasons.

[barry1010]

Poland, Italy, France, Czechia, Portugal and Norway have more cars per capita than the UK.

Germany, Spain, Austria, Greece and Switzerland has a similar rate of car ownership as us.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/vehicles-per-capita-by-country/

[DDIL]

Having holidayed significantly in France and spent a great deal of time in Belgium with family I can assure you that their public transport in rural areas is shocking too! I would compare it in cities to that in london great for getting around the inner parts but don't try and use it for further a field.