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With a terraced being about 5yds wide that's 40 houses per lamp post. The only charge goes to the person that gets there first then. Yes, thank goodness that's not the only (or even the most popular) option. I suspect that private car ownership will become so troublesome and expensive that people living in urban areas simply won't bother.
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Let’s hope the Government is up to the challenge! We’re all doomed .........
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I suspect that private car ownership will become so troublesome and expensive that people living in urban areas simply won't bother. I wonder if that trend has already started? Had a quick look and couldn’t find any statistics.
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I wonder if that trend has already started?
Had a quick look and couldn’t find any statistics.
Car sharing is definitely on the increase, according to Deloitte it's been double-digit for a few years and something like 26% growth this year. With the increase of delivery services people don't need them for shopping, and increasingly people are being disincentivised to take them to work. For the overwhelming majority of people, cars are just an appliance these days.
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Perhaps there will be a return to the 1800s when most people lived within walking distance, or at least bicycling distance, of their workplace.
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One thing that everyone seems to overlook is that with few exceptions the surface of the roads we drive on is a petroleum product.
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Aston University has already being looking into converting household waste into road material.
Basically if there's a problem someone is already looking into making money from it!
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Providing power sources on residential streets sounds an absolute nightmare and will be hugely disruptive. ... ... if you assume the same level of car ownership as today. Once you start paying £2K pa for car tax "to pay for the new infrastructure, Mr Voter, as we still need to pay the nurses ... blah blah" then car ownership should decline a little. And in any case, we all know EV owners charge their cars at work at their employers' expense
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PaulV -- think yourself lucky -- over here in Ireland, currently, a Roadster will cost €2250 per annum in car tax!!
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PaulV -- think yourself lucky -- over here in Ireland, currently, a Roadster will cost €2250 per annum in car tax!! But do you get decent roads or are they all crap there too?
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