[lenja]

Hi, New to this so bear with me.
Goverment trying to price us off road,so lets all go off road for a week,lets see if public transport can work.Also see how Goverment reacts when no fuel duty arrives in coffers ?.Lenja

[Watcher]

Public Transport?

Sorry? What's public transport??:D

[Rolebama]

I don't think the Government has any intention of pricing us off the road. I think it is their way of collecting revenue lost through loss of tobacco and alcohol taxes. I think they can just keepupping prices because people will pay them. There will be plenty of moaning and groaning, but the money will still keep rolling in.

[Snowball]

Road pricing would produce a group of unsafe drivers; mainly retired and low-paid. This is because these people would be forced to avoid peak times, which is when the roads would be at their busiest. But personal circumstances can make it essential for anyone to go on the roads at peak periods. Because of lengthy periods of time without driving in heavy traffic, such drivers would be at a severe disadvantage.
I am retired and in my 70's, but I still drive regularly when the roads are busy, which enables me to maintain my ability to deal with heavy traffic.
I have met people in my age group who are afraid to venture onto motorways, and do not feel at ease on ordinary roads at busy times. These drivers, although they will not admit it, are not all that safe at off-peak times.

For these reasons alone, I am against road pricing.

[tommytwotanks]

road pricing, its a joke, you just wait and see, first of all peek times will be 7 - 9 am and from 4 - 6 pm, then after a while there bring in the 11am - 3pm slot to catch all the shift workers going in for the afternoon shift, and the morning shift going home,
i do shift work, and have to use my car as i have no public transport, ie buses at that time of the day for the 6.30 start or the 10.30 finish on the afternoon shift, in the summer it might be ok to walk or cycle, but who the hell wants to walk to work in the rain with no change of clothes when you get there, it would also mean getting up 1 hour earlier at 4.30 ................. no thanks :eek:

tommy :D

[Snowball]

To get masses of people off the roads and onto public transport would need a tremendous feat in logistics, of which no UK government or local council have yet shown themselves to be capable.
The likely disturbance of the country's infrastructure would produce economic chaos on a massive scale. In commerce and industry, key personnel would be absent from their stations on a regular basis, due to various breakdowns in the transport system. The delays in achieving business targets would have a "knock on" effect, and permanent backlogs would be a normal situation.
Add to this the certainty of Union blackmail and strike action, and we would really be deep in the nasty stuff.
What really worries me is, if a simple guy like myself can see these problems, why are our supposed leaders showing such interest in pursuing this disastrous course, instead of themselves declaring the economic risks?