Bag's Rants

Transport Policy. What a joke.

Road Tax. The biggest rip off that our government pulls on those with no choice.

It takes in something like £70B a year and pays out about £2B from what I understand. I can't find a link and I'm happy to be corrected.

Now it appears that they also want to put in car sharing lanes. Read more here. Does this mean that we get a reduction on our Tax or that Car Lane drivers pay more tax? Yet again we have a new policy that is being introduced that will cause major disruption to all road users and then when it is complete will only benefit a few. What a farce.

Most people don't share cars because it impractical. All that this sort of thing does it cause more frustration on the roads and more people going postal. Road rage has increased dramatically over the last decade or so and yet there is no link between our abysmal transport network and road rage.

If we spent half of the money taken every year on the roads then we could get rid of most of the problems. We could bury our roads except for a where they come up for town driving and this would reduce the accident toll especially with kids and cyclists. We could improve our transport network so much that we might actually have a transport policy instead of the half arsed attempts we have at putting sticking plasters on our transport problems.

I've said it before. We really need someone to look at our transport issues and not start from the basic belief of we can't build our way out of trouble. We can and we should.

posted by Bag @ 3:52 pm