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If Birmingham gets it, I'll be coming to a town near you soon after!
Dave
Read an article today in Autocar. Various city mayors are lobbying the government to ban all ICE cars from 2030, ten years earlier than originally planned. The mayor of London being particularly anti car.
As I said to start this thread electric cars won't be far behind, but the way this is panning out, car ownership will become something for only the very rich who will happily pay all the charges knowing they can get around without all the 'ordinary' people clogging up the roads with their 'ordinary' cars!
Central London is well on the way already. With the ULEZ starting in April it could cost drivers some £25.00 per day in charges to use the roads in the week, and if they dare to want to park, that will be another £50.00.
I wonder if these costs have something to do with most cars in the West End being Bentleys Roll's Ferrari Lambo etc etc.
Like so much else in the UK, and without sounding socialist like the London mayor, the rich an poor divide is alive and well and getting ever bigger.
Eloquently put. 7 miles to the nearest major settlement (Stow on the Wold/Broadway), neither served by public transport.The other divide is town and country. If you live in the cities chances are that you've got decent public transport and taxis will be relatively cheap if, like me, you live 10 miles outside the nearest city, you're screwed. Public transport is practically non-existent and consequently taxis are expensive. So the only option is to drive a car.
If cities ban cars from entering what will happen? Will people just not go? I see that Leeds are going to introduce a congestion/clean air charge for entering the city. Great, one place less to go visit.
I predict that within a couple of years of the introduction of these charges there a reports about retail numbers being down. City centre shopping is on a knife edge as it is, what with malls, high rates, and the Internet. If you make it more expensive to shop in the city centre then they won't do it. London is a special case, in so many ways, public transport is plentiful and well resourced. The rest of the country less so.
As these bans and charges are introduced countrywide I'll look to invest in delivery companies and online retailers. They will be the real winners.
Very astute observation...
In London there is an ever increasing apathy particularly amongst young people as to car ownership.
I was speaking with a friend yesterday evening, who could not be happier at the Siddiq Kahn approach to banning the car. Whilst she has a car at the moment she is planning on selling it, as living close into London public transport and Uber etc is much more convenient, whilst her husband gets around on a Scooter. When I intimated that if she wasn't a woman she could get a scooter, she got strangely angry!!
Seriously however, riding anything with only two wheels, particularly in central London is akin to a danger sport, and as regards private car ownership, we will see overwhelming changes.
Car rental schemes will increasingly become the future for those living in a city. As my friend went on to say, if she or her husband need to travel any distance they can just rent a car of there choice. Even something big or sporty that they would never otherwise own.
All in all I'm not sure it's all that positive for those who like their cars!
Yea right, that's all total bollox then..
If you happen to live in a rural part of the country there's no fuc*ing scooters, and there's no buses to go to work on either....you have to rely totally on your car to get around!
Dave
If cities ban cars from entering what will happen?
Car rental schemes will increasingly become the future for those living in a city. !