Seems the biggest issue today was the environment, and the way that it is to be fixed is to tax motorists until they cannot afford to use their cars any more.
Great idea, until you realise that there is absolutely no public transport structure that could handle all the people who would have to give up their cars if the squeeze got too much,
My sister lives three miles from us, and looks after our children before and after school. The public transport system is so bad that two buses are required to come the "three miles", actually taking in total about six to eight miles. And one day last week, one of the buses just didn't turn up.
So we don't rely on that system. I have to go and get her every day to ensure that she can get here in time so that wifie and i can get to work. So, i say bollox to driving us out of our cars. It is fine for Tavish Scott, the Scottish Transport Minister to say that we need to get people out of their cars by adding more speed cameras to get them to slow down, which was the latest proposal in the tabloids today. Means that his big ministerial Volvo will have much more space on the road and get to where he needs to get to much quicker, while the rest of us taxpayers, i.e. his employers, are left to squeeze onto crowded buses and trains if they turn up, and fight for spaces at railway stations to park our cars because there is no decent integrated bus/train network to replace driving to the station, and train stations just don't have the space (wow, that was a big sentence!!). Again, great planning. Lets force everyone to use a system that is already at breaking point!!!!
Don't really want to get started on the old environment front anyway, will save that for a rainy day(!).
I think we will see more on the environment/transport thing over the coming weeks so no doubt I will be able to rant some more about this.
Mind how you go.
Great idea, until you realise that there is absolutely no public transport structure that could handle all the people who would have to give up their cars if the squeeze got too much,
My sister lives three miles from us, and looks after our children before and after school. The public transport system is so bad that two buses are required to come the "three miles", actually taking in total about six to eight miles. And one day last week, one of the buses just didn't turn up.
So we don't rely on that system. I have to go and get her every day to ensure that she can get here in time so that wifie and i can get to work. So, i say bollox to driving us out of our cars. It is fine for Tavish Scott, the Scottish Transport Minister to say that we need to get people out of their cars by adding more speed cameras to get them to slow down, which was the latest proposal in the tabloids today. Means that his big ministerial Volvo will have much more space on the road and get to where he needs to get to much quicker, while the rest of us taxpayers, i.e. his employers, are left to squeeze onto crowded buses and trains if they turn up, and fight for spaces at railway stations to park our cars because there is no decent integrated bus/train network to replace driving to the station, and train stations just don't have the space (wow, that was a big sentence!!). Again, great planning. Lets force everyone to use a system that is already at breaking point!!!!
Don't really want to get started on the old environment front anyway, will save that for a rainy day(!).
I think we will see more on the environment/transport thing over the coming weeks so no doubt I will be able to rant some more about this.
Mind how you go.
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