The Poolie Bunker

Let me get this straight:

1. The tax payer will probably have to foot the bill to place gantry's/or satellite tracking into cars, thus automatically being worse off.

2. The tax payer will end up also paying per mile (who knows if road tax will be scrapped too) and will most probably be worse off too.

3. Businesses will be worse off (especially truck-based companies).

4. Users will get off the motorways into the rural areas in order to save money, and as a result the grid locks will be in local towns.

5. Satellite based tracking probably breaks basic human rights.

6. Those on the minimum wage or slighly more will not be able to afford to go to work....

So how is road pricing good for this country?

We are all doomed it will cost 139.26 to go to notts forest away!plus fuel i think this will cause a revolution ! i'll be right at the front behind ADG

Look at these figures for example

Ok you do 5 miles from home to get to the motor way for example.

Say that costs 10p a mile = 50p

Then you have to do 20 miles up the motorway at 50p a mile that = £10

Another 5 miles from the motorway into your place of work = 50p

End of the day

5 miles to motorway = 50p

20 miles back = £10

5 miles home = 50p.

So one day just cost you £22 to get to work and back.

Do that over a week and the following months, do you really think you will save money on road tax.


You could of paid for the road tax within the week.

AS FOR IMMIGRATION *SEND THE BUGGERS BACK*

Or you could pay a fraction of that and get the train!

Or you could rent my spare room and watch from here while the whole place turns to shit??

How's the rubbish collection revolution going?? Me and Mrs Kev have been dining out on the 'twice a month' story for ages. This 50p a mile thing should get us another few free plates of monkey brains. They've just made comprehensive insurance compulsory round here for your car.

It costs twelve quid a year!!

On Tuesday we got the train down to Bei Hai, the nearest seaside place. We got reserved seats, although we did have to chuck an old woman out of mine, and a blind bloke out of our rasses, it left on time and arrived on time, two bottles of water and a big packet of biscuits cost 60p the lot and the tickets were 3.30 each. The young lass off the buffet trolley came round and collected all the rubbish, swept up and then came back with a mop and did all the floor. There's three telly's either side of the carriage like you get on aircraft, and there's a free bowl of monkey brains on every table.

Get the train in England??

Forget it.

What's a train...? ours yesterday was late, then whem we finally set off announced it was stopping short but we could all get on the next train which was due in 42 minutes ..... the train was one of those shitty things made from bits of buses where they just change the paint job every time the concession chanes hands

Trains are cack in the UK, and no-ne can tell me otherwise

Due to the fact I was going out on the ale and watching the Liverpool match, I left my car at work and got the train from Leeds to Knaresbrough, couldnt get a return ticket, cost £6.20
Got the train this morning, only 48 minutes late and another £6.20 for the pleasure

Trains would be useless for me, I work shifts so will the trains or buses for that matter stay running until 2:30 in the morning for me to get home

PUBLIC TRANSPORT IS A JOKE...end of. It's nearly all run by a few large companies out to make a profit ...... if it aint profitable they wouldn't be in the business. They can tart it up as much as they like, but when a taxi is cheaper than a bus for a family, we really are in trouble.

From September, I'll walk to the station and walk to work at the other end. Over 100 miles in a day for less than a benner! Bring on road pricing!

It's blatant opportunism, same as the 'Green Tax' on airfares.

Okay maybe we should think twice about flying all over the place and that but some travel is necessary and policies like these don't take account of that, it just tips more down the Treasury maw, which is in turn is tipped down the NHS black hole.

Have you all got chips on your bins now??