21st February 2007, 08:42 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Gizmo
Also my job description says that I need my own car and so do many adverts on BAJR so how do all these people walking and biking to work get on when a last minute evaluation or watching brief comes up? Now I can manage a shovel, kit bag and cameras but I could not cope with a level on the back of a bike!!!!!
If your job description specifically states that you must have your own car then they are in breach of DDA. It should state that you must have access to a means to travel to sites or wherever.
That aside, we already have road pricing. It is called fuel tax. We pay for every journey we make according to the duration of the journey and the fuel efficiency of our cars so people in Chelsea tractors pay more than those in Smart Cars. If they are going to charge us for travelling then they must remove fuel tax completely and implement a system that charges according to the time of day you travel at and which roads you travel on instead, not as well as. Fuel tax seems to get forgotten in the midst of the rest of the debate. Anyway, I signed the anti- petition and received my response from the PM today. Bloody weasel words!
I also object to any system that is solely there for the purposes of spying on me. At least when I use a cash point I get something for it. The proposed tracking system is solely for the purposes of spying on you and could easily be misused by the authorities at any time, and probably will just because it can.
Finally, instead of road charging or other punishments, why not introduce flexible working so that people are travelling to work at different times; allow the lorries to deliver to supermarkets during the night so that they are not blocking the main roads at rush hour; find a way for your staff to work from home one or two days a week so that they are not actually having to travel at all, instead of saying they can't because you might get lonely in the office. There are other ways to deal with the problem and picking on motorists is just using the same old whipping boy all over again.
If it really is about congestion then charging people to travel is unlikely to work because people often have to travel and they will just adjust to the new cost of motoring. Of course, if you can get them onto the public transport then great because that will reduce the total number of vehicles on the road, but the public transport needs to be improved just the same and it needs to be made cost-effective to use it, preferably not by raising the cost of using your car.
Cheers,
Eggbasket
Gentleman Adventurer and Antique
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