Roads, petrol and motoring costs generally

[Gordinho]

Surely there would be other savings in scrapping it? The cost of enforcing it, the cost of running it?

Although I guess there would be job losses involved?

Many years ago I was told that the main reason* for RFL licence being kept in existence was that it forced cars to have their MOT and insurance checked at least once a year when renewing, now that MOTs and insurance are issued and checked online that reason doesn't need to exist.

*Could have been an urban myth though.

 

[Aldo]

Absolutely, because if they're kept at the correct pressure they're more economical.

Finally!

 

[edgey-the-yid]

Problem is they hit these 3 the hardest:

Smokers

Alcohol

Drivers

And that £160 or so a year I pay in taxes only a small percentage actually goes to the upkeep of the roads! The roads round my way are disgusting considering the day and age we live in... I have been struck by potholes on numerous occassions and each time costs a fortune in new tyres and once I even had to fork out almost £200 on a whole new Alloy wheel coz of a pothole!!
The amount we pay in road tax and fuel duty compared to other countries, we should have the best kept roads in the world!

 

[Gordinho]

Finally!

I was keeping a low profile.

 

[P.D.]

Be interesting to see how they price the Crossrail when it comes in 2018, it basically is taking so much pressure off the tube and also almost halving most of the journeys, no doubt itll be £10 per single journey or something ludicrous

I thought it was just going to be part of TFL and therefore regular tube prices. How would they distinguish between someone who goes from stratford to liv st or Tottenham court rd to bond st? They could have just used the central line.

 

[Aldo]

Treading carefully huh.

 

[Gordinho]

And trying to keep a sense of balance.

 

[Gordinho]

i think the freight rail in this country is actually pretty good, use of it is increasing again apparently, not sure where I read that though, probably in one of my dads Rail news magazines

I was told today (not been able to verify it as true) that Asda are loading their delivery vans at a depot in the midlands on a daily basis and then sending them into London on freight trains so avoiding depot costs in London and the congestion charge, at the end of the day the vans come "home" on the train again.

 

[Gordinho]

Problem is they hit these 3 the hardest:

Smokers

Alcohol

Drivers

And that £160 or so a year I pay in taxes only a small percentage actually goes to the upkeep of the roads! The roads round my way are disgusting considering the day and age we live in... I have been struck by potholes on numerous occassions and each time costs a fortune in new tyres and once I even had to fork out almost £200 on a whole new Alloy wheel coz of a pothole!!
The amount we pay in road tax and fuel duty compared to other countries, we should have the best kept roads in the world!

Martin Lewis was on the radio today and was talking about a bloke who was able to prove a pothole which damaged his car had been there for months by using Google Streetview.

 

[Crawley]

I wrote a letter to my local rag complaining about potholes.

I said that one had become so big a family of travellers had moved into it.

They didn't publish.

 

[Gordinho]

I wrote a letter to my local rag complaining about potholes.

I said that one had become so big a family of travellers had moved into it.

They didn't publish.

You went the wrong way about it, you should have said that there was a Yorkshireman eating gravel from it and licking it clean wit' tongue. They'd have gone for that.