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You know, if an insurance company can make "Insure as your drive" work using a little black box, why can't the goverment.
I would support something along these lines in Urban areas- I am not so sure that it is a great solution for somewhere more rural, where cars are such a necessity.
I know for my part that the London growth in auto use is impossible to sustain- and things like silly school runs with Chelsea tractors for 1 child are just a wee bit silly.
Badly thought out planning laws mean a lot of people have to drive pretty much everywhere - school runs, out of town supermarkets, cinemas. Someone needs to take a long hard look at this. How about encouraging more people to work from home too?
Badly thought out planning laws mean a lot of people have to drive pretty much everywhere - school runs, out of town supermarkets, cinemas. Someone needs to take a long hard look at this. How about encouraging more people to work from home too?
Exactly - the council don;t even know what their own plans are half the time! Traffic light sequencing is up the shoot, trains don;t meet buses at the right times to carry on journeys
As for me personally, to get to work by public transport would be an absolute 'mare - it would probs take about 2 hours, and involve, at least, a bus and two trains!!
Life and work is not really geared up for public transport anymore, as peeps choose to live where they want to, and commute to where they have to. FZor example, my Dad used to work in an office in Kendal, which was a 20 min drive. The company he works for then shut down that office, and relocated it first to Birmingham, and then to Stoke, so now he has anything between a 1.5 and a 3 hr drive each way. More often than not, he shares the drive with a colleague who lives locally, and tries to work from home for two days a week, but it isn;t always possible, and they wouldn't move because they like where they live, and friends and family are around them
I could possibly go for it, if road tax was abolished. I think though, that getting rid of road tax, and putting an extra tax on petrol would be the fairest way. Why should my wifes grand-dad pay the same road tax as me, when he only uses his car for shopping and the occasional outing. I use my car everyday. The biggest problem for me, in sub-urbia, is this. I drop my wife at the train station, take my daughter to school and then drive to work. I can do all that quicker than getting a bus to work. And my daughters school is not on my route to work, I actually make a two mile detour (of my route and then two miles to get back on the rat run) to get her there.
Yeah, I really don't know what the govt expect us to do anymore.
They've privatised public transport (with pretty poor results) so they can get more money in their coffers, we pay more fuel tax than anyone else and now they want to charge us for using the roads? What the hell am I paying road tax for then?
It annoys me that they introduce charges like these but don't provide you with a realistic alternative. The public transport's a joke so we've no choice other than to continue to suffer this victimisation.
We all know this is an absolute sham, the current pressure on not driving is a joke.
I'm not 100% sure on the cost but for me to publicly travel to work everyday it would take a bus to the train station, a train and the same back, and I'm lucky because the train station is only 5 mins walk from work.
It would cost me £11 per week for a bus pass and approx £15 a week for the train, over 48 working weeks in the year, £1248.
It would also take me nothing less than 100 mins to make that journey.
Currently, It takes me 15mins to drive two junctions up the motorway, saving me a good 300 hundred hours or 1 AND A HALF MONTHS! of actual time spent traveling. And all this for about £500 extra a year, as well as vastly improved social life because I can drive, more time, less stress.
What possible reason is there for me using public transport? Absolutely zero, that's what.
I agree, there is not enough of an incentive to take public transport to work. Although I don't intead to stay in my present job for much longer, it would cost me the bus fare to the train station, or a 15 minute walk, then a 20 minute train journey, then a 20 minute walk from the train station to my workplace. So a journey which takes me 25 minutes in the car would take nearly an hour. Not to mention the fact it would cost a lot more to use public transport than it does to drive. The trains and buses would have to be alot cheaper and more efficient for me to give up the car to get me to work.
