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Latest survey of motorists about cycling
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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- john_smith 2 hours 38 min ago
Straight into the sun is perhaps an exaggeration, but at that time it would be about ESE, and there are bits of the road which head roughly SSE, so...
- john_smith 2 hours 47 min ago
7 October was just a bit of harmless fun until the "msm" ramped it up.
- hawkinspeter 2 hours 47 min ago
It's not censored if you just pirate it
- stonojnr 3 hours 52 min ago
an example of Kesgraves "best cycling infrastructure in the country" https://maps.app.goo.gl/GsCMbzDUTPdq59qS9
- ktache 3 hours 55 min ago
They are not going full gas at every point. They would destroy themselves. And tactics, they save themselves for when effort is really needed....
- wookey 4 hours 24 sec ago
It turns out that that is national police policy. We found out from this process that there is national 'secured by design' policy which causes...
- mtbtomo 4 hours 39 min ago
Been available for quite a while, full GRX mechanical 12 speed. Probably around the same time as 105 mechanical 12 speed if I were to guess.
- TheBillder 4 hours 45 min ago
Less harmful citrus degreaser is easy to find at £8 or less for 5 litres. Works ok for me, even diluted up to 4:1. Both paraffin and white spirit...
- Veganpotter 4 hours 51 min ago
Nope, it's to keep your straps down and quieter. Plus most sunglasses are polycarbonate and aren't going to shatter like glass anyway
- Steve K 5 hours 22 min ago
And, more seriously, where's the coverage of the closure of the cycle lane which forces you to cycle on the Totton bypass.
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“However, our survey picked up a definite feeling among motorists that they are often held to higher standards than their fellow road users when it comes to adherence to the Highway Code”.
I'd laugh if it wasn't so tragic.
I assume the survey was, like most online surveys, self-selecting, so in actual fact, 7/10 drivers who wanted to have a rant about cyclists in a survey think bikes should wear plates.
I think all car drivers should pay VED even if there is no tailpipe emissions, they are subsidised massively already, the whole zero rated VED thing was a stupid decision. Instead of lowering the costs for lower emission vehicles, it should have just increased the costs at the top end and had a base annual figure for none tailpipe emission motors. Basing it on fuel/electricty used or even better a tax per mile with a higher tax for vehicles with higher emissions and/or energy use with seperate tables for EVs to include all the other pollution they cause.
When you look at the actual amount of pollution a zero rated diesel car makes if driven 10,000 miles pollutes twice what my 2001 diesel would doing 3000 miles*. That's IF the actual rating is accurate, as we know the latest EURO6 diesels are more likely to be out in real world use compared to any other previous standard. We know this due to the independant testing and Sadiq Khan's relaxation on EURO6 diesels for the ULEZ. Some EURO6 vehicles have been shown to be as bad/worse than some EURO III and IV vehicles in real world use.
* based on 99g/km
I disagree - because the VED on my car is £0!
I actually think the VED for all cars should be £0 and it should all be added to the cost of fuel. That way the further you drive the more you pay, the less economically you drive, or the less economical your car, the more you pay. I could own a very unefficent car, and only drive a few miles a year, or I could have a very economical car, pay very little VED and drive thousands of miles a year. How does that make sense. Put it all on fuel tax.;
Well, I half agree with both of you.
Putting the VED tax on fuel should make it simpler (and cheaper) to administer and it also makes heavy fuel users pay more which seems reasonable.
However, we also want to penalise vehicles that are more polluting so if there's no VED then there's no incentive to have cleaner burning vehicles (e.g. imagine everyone driving VW Beetles everywhere).
Personally, I'd prefer having as many vehicles as possible being zero emissions as I don't want to be breathing in more crap than necessary. Having £0 VED seems like a decent way to provide that kind of incentive.
Maybe once we've got rid of the majority of heavily polluting vehicles there could be a big shake up in the taxes to try and remove the subsidies for motorised vehicles, but that's not presently a politcally popular stance.
"while 44 percent want them to pay Vehicle Excise Duty (VED)."
Words fail me.
How do these people get out of bed without a carer?
Actually, I happy to pay the same as my car - the princely sum of £0.
But just think how much income it would generate if they got all cyclists to pay VED?
I like the bit about motorists thinking that they are being unfairly held to a higher standard of following the Highway Code. Yes - that's because of the increased danger of a fast moving tonne of machinery.
You do have to wonder sometimes, don't you?