What policies could improve public and private transport infrastructure?
Replace Vehicle Excise Duty with a 'pay-as-you-go' model of road taxation based on motorway tolls with graded payments based on CO2 emissions of each vehicle.
Commit to supporting the http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25549789 scheme in Londond, and investigating the viability of similar such schemes in other cities.
Work with automobile manufacturers to establish ways of providing infrastructure to support driverless vehicles.
Commit to installing a network of charging units for electric vehicles along every motorway, and in every large town and city.
Not sure about the motorway toll thing; if the idea is to tax based on distance and efficiency, why not scrap VED completely and put it all on fuel?
@stringfellow - over 10 years ago
I agree with @floppy - the "road tax" is on fuel in Jersey (I believe) and one also has to pay a duty on import of the vehicle based on engine size.
@stringfellow - over 10 years ago
I'd also love to see fleets of taxis replaced with electric cars. I really don't understand why this hasn't been a first target for EV penetration since they only typically travel relatively short distances and park up at known places...
I think we could merge this, and I'll do another PR to suggest scrapping road tax completely and replacing with fuel tax. So, 👍
@PaulJRobinson - over 10 years ago
Thumbs up from me also. But for the avoidance of confusion with readers, all references should be to either VED or Vehicle Excise Duty with "road tax" in quotation marks as it is commonly known.
with kind regards, Paul Robinson
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On 5 January 2014 15:24, James Smith [email protected] wrote:
I think we could merge this, and I'll do another PR to suggest scrapping road tax completely and replacing with fuel tax. So, [image: 👍]
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@philipjohn - over 10 years ago
"motorway tolls with graded payments based on CO2 emissions of each vehicle." Given that VED is already based on emissions do we really need the inconvenience (and cost!) of tolls? Given mileage is recorded by MOTs, couldn't we bill for VED after each MOT? It'd digitise it all too.
@philipjohn - over 10 years ago
I also have deep reservations about SkyCycle. Isn't it just further segregation of cyclists? Better, surely, would be to have the cars up there and all but the major roads pedestrianised for use by cyclists too.
Maybe we should rephrase to add support for cycling schemes in general, rather than specific schemes which may turn out to be infeasible.
@PaulJRobinson - over 10 years ago
Certainly need significantly greater investment in cycling infrastructure. I have lost count of the number of times political colleagues have refuted the idea of cycle lanes because "no-one around here cycles".
with kind regards, Paul Robinson
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On 8 January 2014 09:10, James Smith [email protected] wrote:
Maybe we should rephrase to add support for cycling schemes in general, rather than specific schemes which may turn out to be infeasible.
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It seems to me that there must be a cycling group whose existing policy we can adopt on this.
@philipjohn - over 10 years ago
CTC?
Philip John, philipjohn.co.uk
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:35 AM, James Smith [email protected]:
It seems to me that there must be a cycling group whose existing policy we can adopt on this.
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@frankieroberto - over 10 years ago
Suggest closing this issue and re-opening pull requests with separate suggestions for discussion.
@PaulJRobinson - over 10 years ago
no problemo
with kind regards, Paul Robinson
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On 13 January 2014 10:41, James Smith [email protected] wrote:
Yes, let's split this up. @PaulJRobinsonhttps://github.com/PaulJRobinson, want to do that?
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