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Post by johnofgwent on Mar 24, 2024 14:38:17 GMT
Are you referring to ULEZ or the 20mph speed limits The former is a tax on any resident who requires the service of a tradesmen who has to being equipment or materials to the residence that will not comfortably fit in a vehicle aboe to pass the tests. It is a demand on those tradesmen to ppotlessly waste money on vehicles that are otherwise unnessessary.
Saddo Khant's ethnicity is utterly fuck all to do with it. The ULEZ, I know nothing about 20 mph limits.
As for tradesman charging more for working in a ULEZ, I'd ask what's new. They charge for everything they can anyway. As the mayor once said, 'It's part and parcel of living in a big city'.
I agree with your remark about his ethnicity. The idea behind and implementation of low-emission zones in cities should stand or fall on their own merits and not because they are being promoted (or opposed) by a particularly unlikeable figure.
OK, i was asking abiut the 20 limits because he's done that to most of the inner city too. |
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Post by borchester on Mar 24, 2024 14:38:33 GMT
Sadiq Khan braced for major blow as Government backs Bill to SCRAP Ulez expansionThe Government has decided to back a Tory MP's Private Member's Bill seeking to scrap the expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) in a move which could cause a major upset for Sadiq Khan. The Greater London Low Emission Zone Charging (Amendment) Bill, introduced by MP Gareth Johnson, had its second reading in the Commons today. A 'source' close to the London Mayor described the proposed legislation as an "unprecedented assault on democracy". www.gbnews.com/politics/sadiq-khan-gareth-johnson-ulez-private-members-bill I doubt that Saddo gives a sod one way or another. He is so far ahead in the polls that he could introduce legislation to make eating babies compulsory and he would still win the Mayoral election |
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Post by Dan Dare on Mar 24, 2024 14:46:36 GMT
The ULEZ, I know nothing about 20 mph limits.
As for tradesman charging more for working in a ULEZ, I'd ask what's new. They charge for everything they can anyway. As the mayor once said, 'It's part and parcel of living in a big city'.
I agree with your remark about his ethnicity. The idea behind and implementation of low-emission zones in cities should stand or fall on their own merits and not because they are being promoted (or opposed) by a particularly unlikeable figure.
OK, i was asking abiut the 20 limits because he's done that to most of the inner city too. I wasn't aware. In that case my remarks about ULEZ 'ownership' will apply to 20 mph limits as well. |
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Post by sheepy on Mar 24, 2024 14:54:59 GMT
Coventry. Yes, buz is used a bit around here. One old feature that they used to have on the old Mercia was "On the buz to Bedduth"... 😂 Well, it wouldn't be the live and let live in wood end. |
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Post by andrewbrown on Mar 24, 2024 15:27:17 GMT
Coventry. Yes, buz is used a bit around here. One old feature that they used to have on the old Mercia was "On the buz to Bedduth"... 😂 Well, it wouldn't be the live and let live in wood end. Aha, no. I've heard of the Live and Let Live, but don't know it, I'm a Holbronx man. I was actually thinking of the Flying Standard in town, useful for a swift half if you're waiting 10 minutes for the buz. |
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Mar 24, 2024 15:27:59 GMT
At my age ANY trip on ANY bus in wales is FREE. If buses existed going to and from where i need to get to at times i needed, and allowed me to bring the equipment i needed to bring, why the hel would i NOT use them... Quite so. For over 25 years I got free public transport within London (courtesy of my job) and I mostly still couldn't use it. Because I worked shifts and public transport simply wasn't running when I needed to travel. |
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Post by sheepy on Mar 24, 2024 15:39:37 GMT
Well, it wouldn't be the live and let live in wood end. Aha, no. I've heard of the Live and Let Live, but don't know it, I'm a Holbronx man. I was actually thinking of the Flying Standard in town, useful for a swift half if you're waiting 10 minutes for the buz. Has your family a long Coventry history? A lot of Holbrooks were miners at one time. With an Irish community nearer the north end of the Fosehill road I do believe. |
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Post by andrewbrown on Mar 24, 2024 15:47:30 GMT
Aha, no. I've heard of the Live and Let Live, but don't know it, I'm a Holbronx man. I was actually thinking of the Flying Standard in town, useful for a swift half if you're waiting 10 minutes for the buz. Has your family a long Coventry history? A lot of Holbrooks were miners at one time. With an Irish community nearer the north end of the Fosehill road I do believe. I'm actually a scouser originally. I grew up in Warwickshire and went to school in Leamington. I moved to Holbrooks in 2000. Yes, the old Keresley Colliery was next door, now the ProLogis Business Park. There is a big Irish community. I believe the original St Finbarr's Club was located in Foleshill, not sure where, but was relocated to Holbrooks some years ago. It's my goto bar, particularly for sports. They play GAA there too. |
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Post by sheepy on Mar 24, 2024 16:05:13 GMT
Has your family a long Coventry history? A lot of Holbrooks were miners at one time. With an Irish community nearer the north end of the Fosehill road I do believe. I'm actually a scouser originally. I grew up in Warwickshire and went to school in Leamington. I moved to Holbrooks in 2000. Yes, the old Keresley Colliery was next door, now the ProLogis Business Park. There is a big Irish community. I believe the original St Finbarr's Club was located in Foleshill, not sure where, but was relocated to Holbrooks some years ago. It's my goto bar, particularly for sports. They play GAA there too. I met a few miners when I was a young lad in Coventry Colliery Club in the middle of the miners strike, they had it real tough but were determined they weren't going to be beaten. Just comes from living a varied and interesting life. The live and let live in wood end was notorious as about as rough as it gets. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Mar 25, 2024 11:15:29 GMT
Sadiq Khan braced for major blow as Government backs Bill to SCRAP Ulez expansionThe Government has decided to back a Tory MP's Private Member's Bill seeking to scrap the expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) in a move which could cause a major upset for Sadiq Khan. The Greater London Low Emission Zone Charging (Amendment) Bill, introduced by MP Gareth Johnson, had its second reading in the Commons today. A 'source' close to the London Mayor described the proposed legislation as an "unprecedented assault on democracy". www.gbnews.com/politics/sadiq-khan-gareth-johnson-ulez-private-members-bill I doubt that Saddo gives a sod one way or another. He is so far ahead in the polls that he could introduce legislation to make eating babies compulsory and he would still win the Mayoral election I sincerely hope you're wrong. We'll see. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Mar 25, 2024 11:24:23 GMT
Going off on a tangent slightly... I listened to something earlier about electric ambulances in London, well I suppose it doesn't matter where they are but the item was about the London Ambulance Service who have spent £31 million on electric ambulances. Apparently a diesel ambulance pays for itself in five years, but it will take fifteen years for an electric ambulance to pay for itself. The thing is, particularly with the wear and tear they will inevitably get no one expects the battery on an electric ambulance to last fifteen years and replacement batteries cost £12,000. Somebody is making a lot of money out of this, and it's not the tax payer. EVs currently make sense for "mopeds" small city-cars and "family cars"; they make bugger all sense for most other things. All The Best I agree electric bikes may make sense if you're out for a jolly, or the commute to work is just a couple of miles. But they don't make much sense if you're doing the weekly grocery shop, or if you're commuting 30 miles to work. You mention small city cars; I mentioned a while back that the most efficient car both financially and environmentally is a small ICE (Internal combustion engine) car that is regularly serviced and kept for years. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Apr 6, 2024 20:28:33 GMT
I suspect that some amongst our number will be having a rude awakening in the not too distant future with respect to their current disdain for public transport. But that's something for them to look forward to. I think enthusiasts like you need to be deported to somewhere unpronounceable in mid wales where public transport arrives once a week…. |
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Post by patman post on Apr 6, 2024 23:38:29 GMT
If the ULEZ and expansion thereof were not a pet project of the Muslim mayor of London, what would be the objection to it/them? It's unnecessary. It's just another in a long list of attacks on the motorist. Using motorists as a cash cow has become acceptable, trendy even. It's got to stop. I bet there were reactionaries lamenting the passing of the pony and trap, the handsome cab and the Stanley Steamer. London is also a smokeless fuel zone for heating so that even coal and logs can’t be burnt in open fireplaces. Only approved stoves can be used to burn logs. That’s stopped the smogs of 1952 and 1962, but it still gets those cold still days when the polluted air hangs around causing difficulties for people with breathing problems… |
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 6, 2024 23:49:49 GMT
It's unnecessary. It's just another in a long list of attacks on the motorist. Using motorists as a cash cow has become acceptable, trendy even. It's got to stop. I bet there were reactionaries lamenting the passing of the pony and trap, the handsome cab and the Stanley Steamer. London is also a smokeless fuel zone for heating so that even coal and logs can’t be burnt in open fireplaces. Only approved stoves can be used to burn logs. That’s stopped the smogs of 1952 and 1962, but it still gets those cold still days when the polluted air hangs around causing difficulties for people with breathing problems… This is priceless, ffs Pat 21st century London has the cleanest air in decades. The constant assault on the motorist has nothing to do with clean air, it's an excuse. Motorists are an easy target, a cash cow, and you know it. |
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Post by patman post on Apr 7, 2024 0:02:15 GMT
I bet there were reactionaries lamenting the passing of the pony and trap, the handsome cab and the Stanley Steamer. London is also a smokeless fuel zone for heating so that even coal and logs can’t be burnt in open fireplaces. Only approved stoves can be used to burn logs. That’s stopped the smogs of 1952 and 1962, but it still gets those cold still days when the polluted air hangs around causing difficulties for people with breathing problems… This is priceless, ffs Pat 21st century London has the cleanest air in decades. The constant assault on the motorist has nothing to do with clean air, it's an excuse. Motorists are an easy target, a cash cow, and you know it. That’s not happened by accident. Legislation limiting the emission of identified pollutants has led to improvements, and vehicles have had to also comply. Just because the shit of the Victorian era has been shifted from the roads to the rivers, doesn’t mean pollution has been banished. There’s still a way to go… |
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