Road pricing bill before Commons

[gingerjedi]

Oh dear dang65, this blows you argument out of the water.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/waste/stor...148613,00.html

http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=719812004

Maybe train commuters should subsidise us car drivers with a bit of ‘carbon offsetting’ for all the damage you do.

[threaded]

Oh dear dang65, this blows you argument out of the water.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/waste/stor...148613,00.html

Maybe train commuters should subsidise us car drivers with a bit of ‘carbon offsetting’ for all the damage you do.

Yeah, tarmac over the tracks!

[gingerjedi]

Yeah, tarmac over the tracks!

They've done that near me, what was GWR rail track is now called the strawberry line, a very picturesque cycle path it is too.

[DodgyAgent]

Are you saying there are care workers who live in Rochdale and drive to Alderley Edge and back every day to help old people?? Normal people can't afford to do that anyway. They don't do that. They care for old people in their own town, or a short bus ride away. People like midwives and social workers who do drive around the countryside visiting patients... well, they aren't actually expected to pay for their own transport you know.

Well you presume to know what is best for everyone else so you draw the line between what is a reasonable and what is an unreasonable mileage. And if the care worker or the "patient" is not paying for the transport then who is?

[Churchill]

They've done that near me, what was GWR rail track is now called the strawberry line, a very picturesque cycle path it is too.

If you fancy an ironic laugh, have a look at the new Cambridge Guided Bus scheme...

So tragic it's fecking funny!

[wendigo100]

Yeah, tarmac over the tracks!

One of my long-held beliefs! But restrict the new routes to buses and coaches.

[Vito]

There is of course the "keep poor people off the roads" argument in order to make way for the rest of us. But of course I do not subscribe to that view

Oh I do...move out of the way...Merc coming through!!!! Ha ha

Have you noticed how Dang is selective with the bits he responds to...and his arguements are getting shorter and shorter.

[dang65]

Have you noticed how Dang is selective with the bits he responds to...and his arguements are getting shorter and shorter.

I have to admit I'm having trouble keeping up with this onslaught. The fact that I haven't answered every point doesn't mean I don't have an answer, just that every time I respond to one comment I get three or four new ones in return (or repetitions of ones I've already answered). I'll plod on for a bit though. Don't want to let people down, y'know.

[DodgyAgent]

I have to admit I'm having trouble keeping up with this onslaught. The fact that I haven't answered every point doesn't mean I don't have an answer, just that every time I respond to one comment I get three or four new ones in return (or repetitions of ones I've already answered). I'll plod on for a bit though. Don't want to let people down, y'know.

so try explaining why cars are so undesirable and what alternatives you have for them.

[threaded]

One of my long-held beliefs! But restrict the new routes to buses and coaches.

Oh no, I would have them strictly for car use only. Banned from them would be buses, trucks, builders vans, and cars with engine power of less than 150 bhp and more than 3 years old, (some derogations for well maintained Italian exotica need to be sorted etc.). They could knock down the railway stations and build multi-storey car parks in their place.

City-centre to city-centre motorways without jams!