Darrell
Hardcore MB Enthusiast
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- Dec 15, 2006
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- Gixxer 6, Citroen Berlingo, 911 C4S, Dacia Duster and lots of bicycles.
I think you’re missing the whole concept of cycling.Oh , further to my suggestion of registering drivers rather than vehicles , so that people with multiple vehicles need only pay one quota of VED , regardless of how many vehicles they have , because they can only ever drive one vehicle at any given time , and thus a saving can be made .
It seems to me this would work nicely hand in hand with road pricing , which seems inevitable in congested cities and on privately funded roads in years to come . If people are going to be charged on miles driven , it should not matter if that mileage is all in one vehicle or spread across several .
Having a low , flat rate for the entitlement to drive , then a charge for driving on the most congested roads at the busiest times , strikes me as a reasonable and fair system . Commute regularly in busy cities at peak times , you pay more ; drive at quieter times when roads are less busy , you pay less ; drive only in rural areas when traffic is minimal , you pay no road charging fees at all .
And , of course , with a system of drivers being registered instead of vehicles , each driver pays for their own mileage , and not that of family members or colleagues who may drive the same vehicle .
It’s all about freedom. The notion of having something in the garage that you can simply jump on to get somewhere a bit quicker, lose a few kilos or get a little fitter is what it’s all about.
Kids have met up and mucked about on their bikes for decades, it’s given them their first taste of freedom and you appear to want to regulate it and tie it up in knots. In other words ….money.
Leave it be, move on and spend a bit of quality time with your family.