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I've won my 8th Schaeffer pen from my local newspaper, the Express &
Star, for letter of the week. It's retails at £29 and I collected from Beatties, which is part of the House of Fraser group ![]() We UKIPers to the contrary of the media and the liberals are not obsessed by immigration. I wrote a letter about the congestion charge. Dear Editor, The congestion charge is not the way forward as it’s a regressive tax. It’ll make motoring the preserve of the middle class and rich again. It would be better for the government to be bold and brave, to implement former Transport Secretary Alistair Darling’s plan. This is to make it law that every vehicle owner, as a satellite receiver fitted to every vehicle they own and are charged per mile of road used. Added to this, I would subsidise the road charge for the poor by having the rich pay double road charge. Also, large and medium sized cars should be charged more than small cars in our major cities and towns. This will encourage people to buy and use micro and mini size cars in the city, so that a higher car density per mile is achieved. Secondly, the public transport system in the West Midlands needs massive renewal. We are miles behind Manchester, which as an excellent tram system. The major rail routes in the Black Country that was closed during the Beeching axe, should be brought back into use as either tramways or dedicated rapid trolleybus roads. It takes about half the time for a tram or trolleybus on a dedicated roadway to get to its destination than a bus on public roads. Thirdly, buses by themselves are never going to cut the mustard in enticing motorists to use public transport. Buses are very slow halting about every 200 yards at stops. Also, they stop at junctions, are in traffic jams, and have to get around parked vehicles like any other road vehicle. Bus lanes are hindrance to buses, as reducing a dual carriageway to one lane for traffic, cause a traffic jam that the bus gets caught in before it gets to the bus lane. It’ll be far better if roads were kept has they are, to allow for free flow of traffic which obviously helps buses to get along better. Bus lay-bys should be at every bus stop if possible to allow for more free flow of traffic. Many times I’ve seen traffic build up behind buses halting at stops to the nuisance of other vehicle uses. Regards Joe Egginton. |
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![]() "Joe Egginton" wrote in message ... If only everybody in this group could vote for independence from your idiotic crap..... -- Col Bolton, Lancashire 160m asl Snow videos: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg |
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On 18/09/2014 22:46, Col wrote:
"Joe Egginton" wrote in message ... If only everybody in this group could vote for independence from your idiotic crap..... Somewhat erratic uses of the letter "h". Or is that the local dialect? jim |
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On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 22:57:48 +0100, jbm wrote:
Somewhat erratic uses of the letter "h". Or is that the local dialect? Definitely the dialect of what we in Shropshire call "Yow yows" :-) -- Freddie Pontesbury Shropshire 102m AMSL http://www.hosiene.co.uk/weather/ http://twitter.com/PontesburyWx for hourly reports |
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On 18/09/2014 23:10, Freddie wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 22:57:48 +0100, jbm wrote: Somewhat erratic uses of the letter "h". Or is that the local dialect? Definitely the dialect of what we in Shropshire call "Yow yows" :-) Yes I'm a yam yam. :-) |
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