RoadUse

Driven to distraction?!? Drivers, Road Use, Driving... and other methods of getting from A to B... a general discussion on where the presumptions of so-called 'experts' are muddle-headed and just plain wrong!

Wednesday 21 March 2007

Budget for travel?

The often forecast £400 road tax for 'gas guzzlers' has been brought into reality, if only phased in!

Most helpful for those who live in the depths of the countryside, in snow prone areas, or travel down farm lanes or drives!

Still those in government don't appear to recognise anyone who lives outside London as having half a brain or actually being in need of a vehicle to get from A to B.

And the extra costs on petrol and diesel should help make the day for ALL who are compelled to travel any distance to work.

I'm sure government, local government, and hospital trusts can be relied upon to close more local facilities... and so create far more tax revenue with this increase in duty in mind.

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Tuesday 20 March 2007

Have YOU...

Filled up with fuel...

Taxed your vehicle, if it is due at the end of the month...

Comments on the budget will be here tomorrow... your thoughts would be most welcome!
 

Thursday 15 March 2007

Speed camera facts?

I read about the Government having cancelled its research into the effect of speed cameras on AOL.

It brought to mind this quote, which I loved, from Dr. Andrew Shao "a pre-determined conclusion in search of a method to support it."

(It was used about a review of various studies on additive use [they only used studies which supported their point of view] then came out with a review which claimed to prove their predetermined opinions.)

Just another instance of lies, damned lies, and statistics!

The following is quoted from the AOL report..."'The Government cancelled research into the effect speed cameras were having on accident rates and driver behaviour, a request under the Freedom of Information Act has revealed.

The move by the Department for Transport (DfT) was described as "astonishing and grossly irresponsible" by anti-speed camera group Safe Speed.

The DfT said in its reply under the Act that its original research was replaced by research looking at the wider effects of cameras.

But Safe Speed, which believes cameras are having no effect on casualty rates, said the original research was dropped because the DfT was "scared about the likely results".'"

Evidently it was a Safe Speed member who organised the brilliant anti-road charging petition which achieved over one and three quarter million votes in such a short space of time. Sad the reply we all received achieved more plusses on length than sense!

For more details... see the AOL report.
 

Monday 12 March 2007

Are you at risk of being unreasonable? Do you want to get from A to B?

Getting from A to B in the easiest, most time efficient and convenient manner, is surely what we all want and NEED.

Politicians make it sound as if we are being unreasonable in this requirement. Yet they are the ones who made it more difficult [by over-populating this country] and who now make it even more necessary, by closing down local facilities which have served well in the past, and could do so in the future, and locating everything in one central facility... which is only convenient to those who are living right next door to it.

Once elected to Whitehall do they somehow forget that there is ANYTHING outside London? Do they think that when you live right out in the countryside in small vilages or lone cottages, that the underground magically turns up at your door to whisk you to where-ever, to do your shopping, visit the doctors, the dentist, the vets, and carry out the other necessities of living?!

Have they ever shopped for anything?

Think of buying a small electrical appliance, the odd light bulb, and other breakable items... and taking them home on your bike... this is what some of them appear to suggest!

They all need a strong dose of reality... anyone agree?