Sign the road pricing and tracking petition.

[runaway]

Hi guys, just taking a mo to ask those who feel strongly about this stupid idea to add your name to the petition, if you haven't already done so

The TRAVEL TAX PETITION

Some details for those who aren't sure what it's about:
The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it.


The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for a delivery driver.


A non working Mum who used the car to take the kids to school paid £86 in one month.


On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit you can expect a NIP (Notice of Intended Prosecution, i.e. fixed penalty fine and points for your licence) with your monthly bill.

Thank you for your time

 

[Mithras]

Sometimes it seems to me the Government wants us to go back to being an agrarian society where you hardly travel 50 miles beyond your place of birth. It seems to want to punish us for travelling to work, what with road pricing (which affects public transport too) and more expensive train fares at commuter times. Surely the Government should be working towards making commercial activities and hence transport more affordable and useable, not less? Surely this is an admission that they cannot work out a way of dealing with and providing a busy transport system (which is merely a sumptom of a healthy economy) so instead they are trying to restrict it. Just what will that do to our economy? Whats the point of putting people off doing business, going to work, etc.? Do they want everyone to sit and home and just claim benefit?

 

[bellgave]

I have signed it last week as I recieved it in an email from a friend. It really is SO important, Spread the word get this stopped. Honestly what next?

THE PETITION MUST BE SIGNED BY THE 20TH OF FEBUARY SO GET MOVING!!! It only takes a minute!!

 

[Onyxia]

Thankyou,was looking for this this afternoon and couldnt find it.
Even though I dont drive(yet) it's a bloody stupid idear- dont drivers pay enough allready to use their cars???

 

[Onyxia]

Too late to edit but, mind if I post this on my Guilds forum?Sure there will be a fair few happy to sign on there.

 

[smallbutgreat]

OK ... I don't know a lot about this proposal and am still working out how my views on road pricing, but for anyone who has signed this petition I would just like to know:

How DO you propose that, as a society, we pay for the costs of car ownership and what are the alternatives to this? How do we finance the building and maintaining of roads? How do we offset the environmental costs of driving and then scrapping cars and the pollution caused by petrol/diesel and its contribution to global warming?

My biggest concerns about road pricing are about the information that might be collected and held on us: at the same time, I can see why there is a suggestion that people should pay according to what they use.

 

[Sooty]

Signed some time ago. Just the last in a long line of government monitoring, and one step too far as far as I am concerned. If this becomes law I will go to prison before I have one fitted to my car - I am monitored and filmed every time I leave the house as it is, my biometric data is going to be added to a vast central database and I have to pay for the privilege of this unwanted intrusion into my privacy. Am seriously considering emigrating.

 

[flying_change]

I think you should tax car fuel... then the ones who use the road most will automatically pay most.

Oh wait a minute, we do that already.....

 

[Sooty]

I wouldn't mind if some of the money we pay in vehicle excise duty and on fuel actually went towards maintaining the roads or providing decent public transport. We do pay duty on fuel, but we could get rid of road tax and pay more for fuel. It is then purely done on a 'need to' basis. I am sure with modern technology, motorists could be provided with a swipe card to use at petrol stations to prove that their car is road legal.

 

[flying_change]

" I am sure with modern technology, motorists could be provided with a swipe card to use at petrol stations to prove that their car is road legal. "

Or just display an MOT and an Insurance disc on the windscreen, as we presently display a road tax disc.

 

[Tempi]

honestly, we're going to have to pay per breath to breathe soon

 

[Sooty]

If they could find a way of taxing that, they would have. It is nothing new - George Harrison felt similarly aggrieved forty-odd years ago!

Taxman by The Beatles

One, two, three, four...
Hrmm!
One, two, (one, two, three, four!)

Let me tell you how it will be;
There's one for you, nineteen for me.
'Cause I’m the taxman,
Yeah, I’m the taxman.

Should five per cent appear too small,
Be thankful I don't take it all.
'Cause I’m the taxman,
Yeah, I’m the taxman.

(if you drive a car, car - I’ll tax the street;
(if you try to sit, sit - I’ll tax your seat;
(if you get too cold, cold - I’ll tax the heat;
(if you take a walk, walk - I'll tax your feet.

Taxman!

'Cause I’m the taxman,
Yeah, I’m the taxman.

Don't ask me what I want it for, (ah-ah, mister Wilson)
If you don't want to pay some more. (ah-ah, mister heath)
'Cause I’m the taxman,
Yeah, I’m the taxman.

Now my advice for those who die, (taxman)
Declare the pennies on your eyes. (taxman)
'Cause I’m the taxman,
Yeah, I’m the taxman.

And you're working for no one but me.

Taxman!