London Driver's rant time !!!!

[andy_enuff]

oh, and all those people that think 4x4 "cost a fortune to buy and can't afford one". but then 3 grand for a 12 year old car that will probably last 5 -10 years in good hands seems far more sense to me than paying 5 grand every 3 years to keep the latest model..... with an initial outlay of say 15-20 grand....

[NFC]

Again with the pollution = 4x4 !

How about heading the story up with a picture of an X-Type Jag for a change? (> 225 g/km and as much space inside as a Ford Focus!)

And putting the cost up is NOT "creative and radical", it's been the primary method of controlling people's behaviour for centuries.

I spent three days in the C-zone last month (I took the train down because I hate driving in London and do it only when necessary, regardless of cost), walking each day about an hour between hotel and training company, and in all that time I saw 1 (one) Prius - parked - and no end of large German cars. Very few small cars of any nationality.

Who are we kidding? Differential charging already does not work.

[NFC]

And I have compained to the BBC regarding their choice of picture, explaining that some people need 4x4s, very few people need large "executive" cars, which can be even more polluting.

[MattF]

Why don't the tree huggers do what they are good at
and hug a tree. Oh, sorry, they can't, no trees left due
to all the residential and business developers cutting
down any bit of greenery to fit an extra detached house
in or a flat complex. Why do the tree huggers never live
upto their cause and petition the Authorities to penalise
developers for every tree they remove? Carbon dioxide
is a naturally occuring gas in many ways. If the tree
huggers did what they ought to be doing, and tried to
protect the environment, instead of letting the environment
disappear due to business reasons, (and officials realising
they can get a nice backhander if another piece of protected
land is released to developers), then Co2 emissions would be
better regulated anyhow. The T.H's are the biggest bunch of
steaming s**tpile hypocrites around. Most of them have no
true interest in truly protecting the environment. They just
see an easy way to make their sad, pathetic lives be inflicted
upon everyone, and have something to fill their meaningless
lives with. They won't go against something with the financial
might of either corporate business or Government, which is
where most of the blame lies. However, people going about
their daily lives and actually having to work for a living, and
wishing to have some enjoyment from the fruits of their labour,
get shafted continually by these anal retentive pr*cks.

Sorry for the rant, (and the lack of proper punctuation), but
these prats do annoy me.

[logey79]

EXACTLY!!! just look around next time you walk your dog, less trees, more clearings and huge, fugly boards advertising 'EXECUTIVE 1, 2 + 3 BED APARTMENTS' or 'LUXURY EXECUTIVE DETACHED HOMES'

so you have habitat for wildlife removed in the 1st instance, followed by housing targeting 3+4litre plus PETROL guzzler owners, which polute the remaining habitat even more, and due to the FACT that these exec car drivers pay no attention to their surroundings, you have an increase in squished wildlife and pets in areas that before only had careful tractor/4x4/country dwellers prior to the invasion of the townies!

bunch of tw@ts the lot of them!

[mark g8awo]

I think this will spark another fuel protest type demonstration i think... Just think of all the HGVs that do somewhere in the region of 8 to the gallon just sitting in traffic jams all day cos the numpties in cars dont realise how much space a truck needs to turn etc. so can you see the big haulage firms like Eddie Stobbart and others bowing to that idiot again.....

[Tallyman]

Perhaps that's the answer. Get all the haulage companies to refuse to deliver into the charging zone and it would all fall apart very quickly if there was nothing to sell, nothing to eat and no fuel. Can't see Red Ken being able to survive something like that.

[NFC]

Perhaps that's the answer. Get all the haulage companies to refuse to deliver into the charging zone and it would all fall apart very quickly if there was nothing to sell, nothing to eat and no fuel. Can't see Red Ken being able to survive something like that.

One of the plans orignally mooted for the C-Zone was the banning of any goods vehicle over 3.5T gross (Ford Transit or equivalent), so I think Red Ken would be happy if the haulage forms refused deliveries. There would be plenty of van drivers happy to provide the service.

Of course, when no-one in London can move because it takes 12 - 15 Transits (or equivalent) to shift the same load as a 40T truck, things may look a little different, but if you want to be a commercial centre for 10 million people, stuff has to be delivered somewhere.

And THAT is what annoys me most. People NOT looking for solutions, NOT being prepared to do their bit, just wanting to PENALISE someone ELSE to assuage their consciences.