Originally Posted by BDG

Sorry but even if you own a 1 litre Nissan Micra or cycle eveywhere you will still pay for these extra charges.

The additional costs of road charging will have to passed onto the end consumer leading to inflation of prices of goods and services for everything transported by road.

i think its highly unlikely that there would be sufficient investment in the rail network to enable all of the goods to go by rail, and even then stuff needs to go by road from the rail terminal to the shops and offices, unless of course they build a rail terminal next to every village shop:lol:

OK i work in road transport and therefore have a vested interest, yes the road transport causes some of the congestion, but could be argued that it is more important to the economy than commuting by car, the school run in a 4 x 4, or indeed a pleasure ride on a bike (and of course i love riding my bike)

Some simpler solutions may be changing school hours so they don't conicide with peak rush traffic for workers. have the kids start at school at say 7.30 pm and finish earlier, bingo, minimise rush hour,

Or ban single occupancy of cars and make them use motorbikes!

Restrict HGV use to outside a window of 7.30 to 9.30 am and 4pm to 6pm.

BAN ALL CARAVANS FOR EVER BECAUSE I HATE THE BLOODY THINGS!


Another point is that the bulk of the money raised thru road tax/excise duty on fuel does not get spent on the transport infra structure so IMHO its another stealth tax.

Originally Posted by BDG

An excellent post, i couldn't put it better myself, you really are brilliant, well done.