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<blockquote data-quote="Bada-Bing!" data-source="post: 1178579" data-attributes="member: 70552"><p>The car has provided incredible freedom and mobility for us. But here in the UK we have 35m cars of which apparently only 650k are EVs. But there are just too many of them. Drivers getting more irate trapped in congestion and pumping out their fumes in their cars crawling at 5-10mph.</p><p></p><p>We aren't going to replace them all with EVs without massive upgrade of public/private charging points and also the national grid. </p><p></p><p>They aren't going to get rid of roads any time soon but I walk and cycle a hell of a lot more and see how many cars are parked up during the day outside houses and flats, just lying their unused, whilst people are at work. </p><p></p><p>This Tory Government has failed to invest in the maintenance of the roads. Only having to see the number of pot holes in them, created no doubt by the inclement weather and also the heaviness of HGVs and EVs. </p><p></p><p>They have no incentive not to get peeps out of their cars because a major factor is that 60% of the price we pay at the fuel pump is VAT and fuel duty which goes straight to the treasury. </p><p></p><p>My local town centre is 3 miles away has about 5 different roads all leading to it, although they've made the centre a pedestrian only zone. </p><p></p><p>One of the biggest affluent estates rejected LTNs even though 56% were in favour because there wasn't widespread support. Drivers use it as a cut through anyway to get to a main road leading to the M25.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bada-Bing!, post: 1178579, member: 70552"] The car has provided incredible freedom and mobility for us. But here in the UK we have 35m cars of which apparently only 650k are EVs. But there are just too many of them. Drivers getting more irate trapped in congestion and pumping out their fumes in their cars crawling at 5-10mph. We aren’t going to replace them all with EVs without massive upgrade of public/private charging points and also the national grid. They aren’t going to get rid of roads any time soon but I walk and cycle a hell of a lot more and see how many cars are parked up during the day outside houses and flats, just lying their unused, whilst people are at work. This Tory Government has failed to invest in the maintenance of the roads. Only having to see the number of pot holes in them, created no doubt by the inclement weather and also the heaviness of HGVs and EVs. They have no incentive not to get peeps out of their cars because a major factor is that 60% of the price we pay at the fuel pump is VAT and fuel duty which goes straight to the treasury. My local town centre is 3 miles away has about 5 different roads all leading to it, although they’ve made the centre a pedestrian only zone. One of the biggest affluent estates rejected LTNs even though 56% were in favour because there wasn’t widespread support. Drivers use it as a cut through anyway to get to a main road leading to the M25. [/QUOTE]
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