No, it’s entirely pertinent to the issue at hand, as drivers seem to be under the impression that rules and regulations of the road should be the same for both 4 wheels and 2, when some basic physics and a sprinkling of statistics shows why that is daft.
I don't believe either of these trades are mentioned specifically in the Highway Code.
I don't believe either of these trades are mentioned specifically in the Highway Code.
Again, cyclists thinking the rules don't apply to them.
I reckon what happened there was that she was being chased down the road by a wookie, which she managed to outrun. As she was drawing near to the lights, Darth Vader appeared in the middle of the junction and gave her a bit of a fright. She slammed on the brakes but the neutron flux capacitors had been partially destroyed by a hadron tufty bolt, causing her to end up stradding the stop line.
Otherwise known as driving/riding without due care and attention.
We all know that the rules of the road do not apply to cyclists because they don't pay road tax, don't have number plates
Oh ffs stop it with this shit. Barefaced lying there
I have no problem with them not paying tax. I believe tax should be abolished for everyone. No insurance and no traceability are another matter. There are far too many cyclists mowing down pedestrians and simply riding away.
No tax at all? Fucking eejit
Put it on fuel, you fucking thick div.
What tax?
The tax motorists pay.
Citation needed
That’s tax on emissions. Which is a good thing. You just said that no one should pay tax, which is a foolish thing to propose
The one based on emissions? Seems perfectly fair for now.
So punish mostly working class professional drivers while lightening the tax load on rich owners of multiple cars. Great move.
Well, thanks to the enlightened, harm reduction based approach to traffic policing from the good folk in the Wear Midlands Police force, round here quite a lot of the rules that apply to cars effectively don’t apply to cyclists. They’ve publicly stated that they are focusing on cars and not cyclists when it comes to things like red light jumping. You might get a telling off if it’s a slow day and they’ve nowt else to do, but that’s it
You think it's fair that someone who drives 1000 miles a year should pay the same tax as someone who drives 200k miles a year?
How would it punish them? They'd simply pass on the cost to whoever they're working for.
Citation neededWell, thanks to the enlightened, harm reduction based approach to traffic policing from the good folk in the Wear Midlands Police force, round here quite a lot of the rules that apply to cars effectively don’t apply to cyclists. They’ve publicly stated that they are focusing on cars and not cyclists when it comes to things like red light jumping. You might get a telling off if it’s a slow day and they’ve nowt else to do, but that’s it
How would they do that then? Unless they were the actual owners of the businesses they worked for in which case they wouldn't be working class.
The way I’d do it given a blank piece of paper would be a base tax on each vehicle that would cover a state backed 3rd party insurance. Then I’d have a yearly charge based per mile driven, linked to emissions, so 5000 miles in a Micra would be a lot cheaper than 5000 miles in a Mustang. Plus the tax on fuel as it is now.
Define " working class professional drivers "
And despite requests you're not suggesting any authoritative sources free or pay
Taxing fuel covers most of this.
Private hire drivers and couriers would suffer most, the black cab drivers could probably force a rate rise. But drivers who depend on an office to book work would depend on the company they work for a) agreeing to a fare increase and b) passing it on to the drivers. Given the level of competition and the (non-existent) ethics of the industry they'd lose out big time just as they do every time fuel prices go up.
