Thread: Proposed Travel Tax

petal

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/

There are other petitions on this site worth looking at I think.

nanna

Thanks for letting us know about this Mary. Although not a car driver myself, most of my family are, I have let them know about the petition.

Nanna

Flood

Do you know? When I signed that petition I thought I was doing the right thing. Now I've had a while to think about it, and I know for a fact that I shouldn't have signed.
It was good advice, Mary, but I really wish I hadn't done it now. My reasons are that there is way too much traffic on the roads and global warming. They say the temperatures will go up by 2 or 3 degrees in 10 years, or something, and that it's dangerous. I want our planet to stay the way it is.

petal

These things always need to be given a bit of thought and where some people might benefit others won';t.
Watching a programme on global warming the other week I'm not sure anything we do now will make much difference for at least 20-30 years. And unless the rest of the world pull their weight......then whatever we do is a drop in the ocean.
And I don't see why the government have to bring out these new rules and then we end up paying. Makes me wonder if they're using the global warming issue knowing that most of us will be happy to do out bit for our planet.

Waks

Talking about global warming....did anyone catch the news last night? They were talking about the problems we'll face if we don't start making drastic changes. If we continue to produce carbon emissions at the rate we currently do, the ice caps will melt & the water levels could rise as high as 20 ft

They also showed a map of the Uk & the effects that amount of rising water would have - the Eastcoast shoreline (from Wakefield) would sit approximately in York, instead of Bridlington & Scarborough. This could happen by the end of the century. I started thinking about my children, as Chloe is the youngest at 3 yrs, this would possibly be in her lifetime & definitely in my future grandchildren's lifetime...very scary!!

petal

Flood

Too true, Mary. My niece and nephew are 4 and 3 and what sort of a world can they expect? If you don't look on these things with a bit of humour, I think we'd all go mad.

mollie

I won't be signing any petition as I don't like cars. Whats wrong with walking the kids to school, especially if you are a non-working Mum. (sorry no offence meant to anyone). I used to enjoy walking my kids to school when I was a non working mum.......bit nippy in the winter but it helped build kids immune systems also it was a social event and a great way to build friendships. Bring back goods trains for transporting stuff.....................less fuel and greater loads and its time the canals were opened up again for transporting stuff. Much better than all those wagons thundering by your door if you are unfortunate enough to live next to a motorway which I did for many years. Ban cars from town centres. (most do now). If we have to have them......car share. and as for all those 4x4's you may as well walk round with your paycheck pinned to your forehead cos to me they are only symbols of how much money you got...........what in heavens name do we need them for anyway on our already overcrowded roads. Another thing that annoys me is all those cars designed to hold 5 peeps and more and what do you see......................only one person in it. I think motorists should be fined for that..........lol. I understand there is a need for motorised transport and if councils and governments got their fingers out then public transport is the way to go and also bring back the bus conductors to deal with stroppy kids on buses
Oh yeah and buy all the kids a bike......make it compulsary



Molls climbs down off soap box after getting rotten tomatoes slung at her from all directions

petal

Get back on that soap box Mollie............lol I never threw anything....honest........it weren't me !
I seem to remember we had this discussion a long time back only then you were in favour of bringing back the horse and cart............lol and why not indeed ? I can't drive so it makes no difference to me. I walk locally and get a bus out of town. Works our cheaper going to Mums on the bus now I'm a pensioner................lol Get cheap ticket to Peterborough, then pay £5 each way for the rest of the journey. Would cost more in petrol/wear and tear on the car. Go for it Mollie.........we'll have you up for election in no time...........lol (oh and please read poem today.........you get a mention...............pmsl)

mollie