petition for road charges
Discussion
dont know if this has been done on here yet.
[url]http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/ [\url]
The government’s proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it.
The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for a delivery driver.
A non working Mum who used the car to take the kids to school paid £86 in one month.
On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit you can expect an NIP with your monthly bill.
If you care about our freedoms and stopping the constant bashing of the car driver, please sign the petition on No 10's new website (above )
[url]http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/ [\url]
The government’s proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it.
The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for a delivery driver.
A non working Mum who used the car to take the kids to school paid £86 in one month.
On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit you can expect an NIP with your monthly bill.
If you care about our freedoms and stopping the constant bashing of the car driver, please sign the petition on No 10's new website (above )
Signed
As Reading council have recently announced plans to test congestion tax (just after announcing plans to f
k up the roads), I wrote to my MP to object and ask for assistance fighting this.
My MP is Conservative, and has the narrowest majority of any Tory MP (I think, it's around 400). You would have thought he'd take the time to reply, however briefly.
Nope, this is my 2nd correspondance (of 2) he's ignored!
As Reading council have recently announced plans to test congestion tax (just after announcing plans to f
k up the roads), I wrote to my MP to object and ask for assistance fighting this. My MP is Conservative, and has the narrowest majority of any Tory MP (I think, it's around 400). You would have thought he'd take the time to reply, however briefly.
Nope, this is my 2nd correspondance (of 2) he's ignored!
hollowpockets said:
The government’s proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it.
They're going to be fitted to all new cars soon (EU is pushing for it).
hollowpockets said:
A non working Mum who used the car to take the kids to school paid £86 in one month.
If she's non-working then she's got time to walk.
hollowpockets said:
On top of this massive increase in tax,
Fuel and or road tax will be reduced so the scheme will be revenue neutral.
hollowpockets said:
They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit you can expect an NIP with your monthly bill.
That won't be able to happen because, as well as the EU fitting GPS to all cars, they're also working on speed limiting technology.
deva link said:
hollowpockets said:
On top of this massive increase in tax,
Fuel and or road tax will be reduced so the scheme will be revenue neutral.
Yeah, right. Do you actually believe this?
deva link said:
hollowpockets said:
They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit you can expect an NIP with your monthly bill.
That won't be able to happen because, as well as the EU fitting GPS to all cars, they're also working on speed limiting technology.
And that's a good thing?
deva link said:
hollowpockets said:
The government’s proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it.
They're going to be fitted to all new cars soon (EU is pushing for it).
So it looks like I will never buy a new car
The single good thing this scheme would do I think(and i personally think its miniscule in comparison to the bad points)is to make it very hard for any dodgy tosser to get a car on the road and drive it around.
But a few chavs off the road in return for living in a police-state isnt a good deal. It's like being told you can shag cameron diaz, but only after someone has cut your knob off.
But a few chavs off the road in return for living in a police-state isnt a good deal. It's like being told you can shag cameron diaz, but only after someone has cut your knob off.
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