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Ten years to go until electric...
MCTID:
Some great comments on here....all have some validity, but here's my twopennyworth (or should it be 2KW's worth).
Given the recent monumental Government Cock Ups of recent years - Smart Meters which don't work, about turns on Diesel Vehicles, moving Vehicle Taxation on line and losing £100M revenue in the following year, Covid, Mass Testing, Lockdown policies changing with the wind/ tides/ sunrise and sunset etc etc etc, all I can say is that whatever route we go down the Government MUST not have anything whatsoever to do with it.
It would be far better to hold a competition between the inmates of all Lunatic Asylums in the UK, and select a panel of 10 of the craziest people from them, and then let them formulate a plan for how this country manages how we go forward with EV's.
Not as daft as you might think.....as I guarantee that 10 of the craziest people in the UK would probably come up with a better plan than ALL of the politicians in the HOC and ALL those politicians sleeping in the HOL !
MrDavo:
I thought the same when I read the plans to replace road fuel duty with road pricing to cover the shortfall when we all go electric.
As with the Congestion Charge plans for Greater Manchester, and plans to limit care home fees, if the Government announce it will definitely happen at some unspecified time in the future, you can guarantee it definitely won’t happen.
By the way I have a prediction that one day I will be run over by an electric car I didn’t hear coming. They should all be made to have the equivalent of a lolly stick in bicycle spokes to make an artificial noise.
K2-K6:
"By the way I have a prediction that one day I will be run over by an electric car I didn’t hear coming. They should all be made to have the equivalent of a lolly stick in bicycle spokes to make an artificial noise."
Something of a repeat in ways, my father worked with an older guy who'd driven trolley busses in reading before they'd been replaced with diesel, and runovers of pedestrians where given the name of "silent death" for the above circumstances.
Which also brings up one way to reduce, in metropolis polution, and requiring no on vehicle storage, trolley busses for all significant urban working routes would make alot of sense.
Speaking of the political decision making the wrong choices. Visiting Crich the last time for bike meet, I rode the tramway on one of them that would have operated Wimbledon to Hampton Court (near to where I live) and didn't even know that a line had existed there. If we as a country hadn't thrown away so much of our railed infrastructure there probably wouldn't be so many private vehicles around now. What great irony.
MCTID:
Shouldn't laugh at Mr Davo's comments but on the day that the modern Trams came into service in Manchester, a pedestrian was run over and killed....the same happened on the first day the modern Croydon Trams ran.
I lived and worked in Manchester for many years and the Public Transport Service was so poor that EVERYBODY had Cars or Motorbikes....if you wanted to get to work - either on time - or at all !
When I went to work in London for LU and started to go everywhere by Tube, Bus, Tram or Train it was like being 'liberated'.......I could go anywhere, anytime and I never used my car apart from the commute to the Railway Station......I certainly never used it to go into the City - even though I worked there.
You only have to look at the massive expansion of the Trams in our major cities to see how sensible they are, and no doubt their future will be key in reducing Carbon Emissions and urban pollution.
K2-K6....when you work on the Operational Railway you soon learn to have eyes and ears in the back of your head as those 200 Tonne Trains travelling at 70MPH don't stop.....and certainly not when a 15 stone bloke gets in the way ! When the Bombardier Electrostar Trains first came into service, they were also known as the 'Silent Death' !
Lastly...who remembers that grand scheme to close Motorways late at night, and using huge convoys of large Hovercraft to shift goods all over the country when most of us were asleep ?
cliff7:
About 3 million cars on the road when I was born. Now over 30 million!
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