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Feb 18th, 2024, 15:05 | #1 |
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This is to reduce road tax on 20 +year old cars https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/654884 |
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These petitions don't do anything at all, it's just a thing for people to feel like they 'have a voice' and are 'involved'. If petitions worked it would be easy to fix all the UK's problems. To tell the government to stop the boat enthusiasts, or to stop the spread of a certain lovely religion, or a compulsory year in prison for knife crime, or to build more prisons as that's usually the sentencing excuse for why people aren't locked up.
Ain't it weird how there's always enough money for some of the government's favourite pastimes, wars and surveillance, but never enough money to fix the f**king potholes?? A car last night had it's wheel/suspension ripped off, because I guess a manhole cover was lifted up and away by the flood water. Possibly due to the distract council not being arsed to maintain the drainage system? It wasn't even raining that hard! Oh well, I'm sure the council will do its best to put things right, by weaselling it's way out of paying for the damage.
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The roads where I live are atrocious and getting worse. Potholes filled a month ago are beginning to open up again, and roads where whole stretches were resurfaced 5 years ago are showing potholes and other signs of deterioration. This seems like an incentive for the maintenance companies not to do too good a job. Nice regular earner to have to keep repeating poor work on a regular basis.
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Having someone from the council inspecting the contractors' work and instructing them to do a proper job in order to get paid might help. If repairs actually lasted then the consequence need not be less work for those contractors. Instead, it could be that they go and repair other potholes properly as well, as I'm sure that there'd still be enough road repairs required to keep every contractor busy for eternity anyway.
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What should be done with potholes is cut a hole around them with a saw, approximately 1 metre square, fill with stone to approximately a few inches below the surface of the tarmac, compact it with a wacker and then lay the tarmac. There's a big difference doing it that way than the DIY bagged tarmac route, but it takes more time and therefore more money.
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It's in their interest to do a bad job, when the road is in such a state the whole thing needs doing its them that get to quote a massively inflated price, then do a shoddy job and the cycle starts again. A major road into town near us was closed for 6 weeks a few years ago for a full resurface at huge cost. They did such a bad job the road was worse than before within 12 months and was done again. Last year it was closed for the 3rd time. Isn't it a surprise that the same contractor did all 3 jobs and is still working on major roadworks in and around town.
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I could post several more paragraphs, but suffice it to say that we should be repairing damaged appliances, and encouraging their continued use, rather than junking them and manufacturing more low grade stuff ( probably from plastics). The sharper amongst you will have realised that I signned the pettition. It's a shame that I can't have one vote for each vehicle.
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For example, vehicles over 40 years old are currently exempt from the ULEZ charges in London. If the old classics (over 40 years old) were high polluters, they wouldn't be exempt from emissions charges. So if the old classics are exempt, why does a car that's 20-25 years newer have to pay the ulez charge because it doesn't meet emissions standards? If the car that's 20-25 years older is exempt, why isn't the newer one? I personally think vehicles should be taxed based on their weight and mileage per annum. So a person that does massive mileage per year pays more than the person that does little mileage. The person driving a close-to 3 tonne SUV pays more and continues to pay significantly more road tax for as long as they own the car than the little old lady in her non-ulez compliant Nissan Micra. I think older cars should pay less road tax, not more. They pass MOT's each year and part of that is an emissions test... they're safe to be on the road, if they weren't, they wouldn't have passed. I don't think a V8 Range Rover because its newer should be cheaper to tax than a 20 year old Volvo.
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