How come all the debates in BI&DF end up as EU bashing or Immigrant bashing. Even when we're talking about transport, for gawds sake!!
Back to the world of dreams.........Yes, public transport much better and cheaper so people want to use it rather than being forced to use it. Does anyone disagree with that?
Cars - private cars and commercial vehicles are by far and away the best all round transport for short and medium distances. Only parties as detached and power crazed as Labour (or Green, or LibDem or NewTory) could think otherwise.
Gordon knows we'll never stop using our cars so he can tax until our eyes pop - and give nothing back. Who's voting for these characters?? It makes you wonder.
What's the answer then? Fewer cars or more roads?
I actually think the problem lies with commercial vehicles, trucks and vans, especially HGVs, rather than private cars (except the school run).
Look at the M6 and other routes - practically all trucks. How often are you sitting behind trucks overtaking on a two-lane motorway, or stuck behind a truck on A and other country road. And how many trucks are foreign? Masses.
I think radical solutions are called for in the short term. In return for reducing HGV road tax I'd:
1. Restrict HGVs to inside lane of motorways in busy periods, and certainly on two-lane dual carriage-way.
2. Encourage HGV overnight journeys.
3. Route HGVs so that they take M-ways, then A trunk roads, then A roads to their nearest point of delivery, before coming off to other roads.
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