Have you all got your bicycle trouser clips at the ready? 
Half of all urban journeys to be cycled or walked by 2030. I’m sure I can get a Doctors note saying I’m past my sell by date for that malarkey. forbes.com/sites/carltonrei … 34768f551a
lancpudn:
Have you all got your bicycle trouser clips at the ready?
Is he the secret love child (grandchild?) of Norman Tebbit?
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So, if he wants 50% of urban trips on foot/cycle, how many are there now? Is it a big change, or a small tweak?
He’ll get his way too, another few years of lockdowns and the economy will not be on its arse but buried out of sight, fuel costs will be astronomical, only the very wealthy will be using their new electric cars.
No job, no money, no papers (comrade), you’ll have no need to and no excuse to travel in a Zil lane even if you could afford to.
It WILL happen as well.
If the last few months of neo East German style state control is anything to go by, and it carries on and progresses with it’s development, the country’s new total conformists will be walking to their journeys stark bollock naked if they are told to…and then go on to tell us all of the ‘‘benefits’’, because they have been told 
… and then grass those up who prefer to retain their undercrackers. .
^^^ sadly, Robroy, as can be seen regularly and depressingly on these very pages, only a small handful are not willingly peddaling the non stop train to the new utopia they have planned for us.
Most are apathetic, some are convinced the govt and it’s preferred scientists are omnipotent and have their best interests at heart, the same govt hell bent on destroying everything we and our forebears hold dear and many died, it would appear in vain, to protect.
This is supposed to be a lorry driver’s forum, at one time lorry drivers were a stubborn bunch of sods who never took a bloody thing at face value, WTF happened in the last few years did they slip kool-aid into the drinking supply or what? if the level of conformity to and unquestioning faith in govt/company dictats here is so high, imagine the level it must be at in other places/industries/communities where the inmates ain’t naturally independent minded
Once the CAZ’s start kicking in from this year after being postponed from last year due to the pandemic local authorities will have carte blanche to remove car parking spaces like they’ve done in Paris itsinternational.com/its3/n … ing-spaces
Birmingham (they already have 67 ANPR/monitoring cameras in place) for June 1st. Bristol, Oxford, Bath, Bradford, Portsmouth, Newcastle, Tyne & Wear are due to start this year & Greater Manchester next year transport-network.co.uk/Cit … emic/17101
The government have already stated in the Environment bill that they do not want to replace 40 million ICE motor vehicles with 40 million large electric cars.
The price of fuel looks set to rise even further than it did in January fleetnews.co.uk/news/fleet- … -duty-hike
Diesel cars seem to be public enemy number 1 at present especially with news like this. a record number of MOT failures reported last year due to emission failures, Over 1.4 million fleetnews.co.uk/news/fleet- … -emissions
^^^ these changes are govt mandated not necessarily what the good burghers of the cities involved wish to do, whilst it’s understandable to try and keep the air quality as good as possible, it’s only 9 years until the sale of new internal combustion engined cars is supposed to be banned, the country’s economy has been shredded by the govt of the day, wouldn’t it have made better sense to have shelved these schemes to help allow the economy to recover in the knowledge that in a few years time the most polltuing vehicles will be naturally on the decline anyway?
This of course assumes the govt wants the economy to recover.
Many if not most of those Diesel engined MOT emission failures will be down to tampered with DPF’s and dodgy remaps, flawed alterations made to vehicles that were bought for the wrong reasons by the wrong people in the first place, left alone maintained and driven properly most Diesels would be fine for the time they are likely to last.
Its blindingly obvious fuel taxation is going to rise, someone’s got to pay for disastrous govt decisions of the last 12 months, might as well be the hated motorist, will especially affect working class jobs where the vast majority of us have no sensible public transport alternative due to commute times and areas, but who the hell gives a toss about the real working class.
Grant Shapps and the other other (mostly Southerner) tree huggers who think cycles are the perfect solution should be made to spend a month cycling around West Yorkshire/Greater Manchester or the Peak district.
The Lycra clad fans of the Tour de France will probably have fun, others may realise this is not practical for people of all ages and state of health (especially when the weather is bad).
Grant Shapps apparently spent some time at Manchester Metropolitan University, so ought to have some idea of the geography of the Pennines.
Put the idiot on his bike and make him tour the hilliest towns and cities in the land for the next six months. He can start with Sheffield.
I’ve been toying with the idea of getting a pushbike.
Only live a couple of miles from work…most of which could be covered off road.
With all this lockdown malarkey,and the closing of pubs…I’m losing the beer baby.
Might take it up a level.
A lot of people are going to be priced off the road in these CAZ’s. transport-network.co.uk/Ove … year/17122
lancpudn:
A lot of people are going to be priced off the road in these CAZ’s. transport-network.co.uk/Ove … year/17122
The lease scheme they propose looks interesting.
Some sort of credible alternative for existing cars perhaps?
^^^ In other news, shops and other businesses raise concerns about the rise in online shopping and people seeking alternative venues such as theatres, pointing the finger at Amazon and customers/audiences who dared to go where they, and their custom, might actually be welcome, well i never.
You can’t help self delusional stupid, quite apart from govt and local lunatics destroying their cities via idiot schemes like these, the mere fact they’ve turned what were once pleasant places to visit into crime infested hell holes that no one with an ounce of sense would go within twenty miles of, simply doesn’t register.
Apart from work when i’m paid (and only when paid properly, those paying £crap an hour straight through will never get me into such a city again) i will never set foot inside London and some other versions of hell again as long as i live.
Juddian:
^^^ In other news, shops and other businesses raise concerns about the rise in online shopping and people seeking alternative venues such as theatres, pointing the finger at Amazon and customers/audiences who dared to go where they, and their custom, might actually be welcome, well i never.You can’t help self delusional stupid, quite apart from govt and local lunatics destroying their cities via idiot schemes like these, the mere fact they’ve turned what were once pleasant places to visit into crime infested hell holes that no one with an ounce of sense would go within twenty miles of, simply doesn’t register.
Apart from work when i’m paid (and only when paid properly, those paying £crap an hour straight through will never get me into such a city again) i will never set foot inside London and some other versions of hell again as long as i live.
A new business charge is on the cards too with more councils wanting to implement a WPL Employees who drive to work will have to pay a WPL (workplace parking Levy) airqualitynews.com/2021/02/08/w … nd-coming/
^^^^ just read through that link, what a lot of rose tinted faff, so removing parking spaces and charging people who dare to need to drive to work is the key to sustained economic recovery , where do these people come from.
They have no more idea than fly what working in the real industrial sector entails, you know the private sector which relies on running a business at a profit, depending on the costs one more straw that will break many worker’s financial back where they’ll work out if it’s worth carrying on actually working, in practice costs will rise for consumers because these devious methods of shadow taxation…for that’s all this is…will get passed down the line to who eventually pays, every one of us consumers.
Coming up with ■■■■■■■■ like this keeps such people from having to find a real job.