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Posted by Keith Roker to swanage view
Friday, June 10, 2005
Road Charging
Road charging has the potential to return Swanage to the delightful Hebridean isolation it enjoyed before trains and steamers opened it up as a resort. Who is going to cough up a pound a mile or whatever to use the M3 at peaktime on Friday to come here for the weekend? At least when visitors do get here they will be captive as they wont want to pay up to go anywhere else. Snag is none of us will be able to escape.
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Posted by Keith Roker to swanage view at 6/10/2005 01:32:44 PM
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Posted by Keith Roker to swanage view
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If there was a road user charge imposed round here? It would prevent, or at least stifle, the swarming of the grockles.
That would be nothing short of a tragedy. for it would deprive the locals of the finest sport in the world..That of "Peasant Shooting"
Or better know in Herston as "Hunt the Grockle" The highest bag of the day gets a bar of chocolate.
Anyone want to sign on for the next Grockle Hunt?
Dancing Ledge
perhaps the boys at Virtual Swanage were right...
Rowland Hughes says: If road charging was to be put in place, what is the problem with just increasing the fuel tax? Why install billions of pounds worth of electronic equipment, which will probably be obsolete in a few years when a new technology or change of policy comes in. I would personally be all in favour of paying a road charge through fuel tax - although I thought we did this already with the highest fuel tax in the world - but only if some of the revenue were used to give affordable and efficient public transport - and not squandered on horse passports, identity cards that won't achieve anything and the long list of similar that our nanny state seems furiously determined to impose on us all.
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