In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >LOL! What you say is true, Roger. On this list, at least. But not, >thankfully, in the outside world. Congestion isn't engineered; it's >something that comes about as a result of increased road use.
Not always. There are certain parts of London where the traffic light phasing has been altered and there is now congestion where before the change there was not. Do you really believe that this is not part of a plan to facilitate what is only a TAX to be welcomed in........ >In >London we accepted the congestion charge on behalf of all of you >because the situation had become intolerable in our city as it will >eventually in yours. In addition, there are those of us who believe in >global warming (I can't believe there there are dinasours who still >don't, but it takes all sorts...) who feel that the wholesale use of >the internal combustion engine at the sort of levels it is now, is >killing the world. We are in favour of limiting car use, and making >those that use cars pay for what is a privilege not a right. We have >made some moves towards making big cars pay more for the roads. Why >not go the whole hog and make them pay in relationship to the use they >make of roads. ie through their fuel. I know this is going to lead to >restrictions in our freedom of movement, and as a libertarian I don't >like that. I'm from the coutry too, so don't tell me I don't >understand the plight of rural communities either. Or that I'm >anti-car either; I own two, how could I be? > >But what else are we going to do? Drive blindly towards the precipice >encased in our hermetically sealed tin pods? Or like Niall, argue that >there's no precipice at all? > Its simple legislate do not TAX. California did this with cars 20 years ago all this government seems to do is tax if they cut the level of permitted emissions that would go a long way to sorting the problems. You can deal with it whatever way suits you me I cant afford a new car but have gone 100% biodiesel so my car is now cleaner that these so called green hybrid cars. Hope you enjoy the congestion charge when it comes in, in Greenwich soon -- Julian Tether Barge Parglena e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
