Tax discs

[Kite159]

Is it an offence to display a foreign tax-disc?

I'm starting to see more cars without discs now, although still a tiny amount.

 

[richw]

Is it an offence to display a foreign tax-disc?

I'm starting to see more cars without discs now, although still a tiny amount.

You can display anything you like as long as it is not in the wiper area.

 

[Feathers44]

I suddenly had a thought earlier today and now feel rather stupid.

Why didn't I leave the tax disc holder in, but then put in an ancient tax disc from a year or two ago? Given you don't need to display one, I can't imagine it being an offence to show an out of date one.

Why?

Because all those nosey do-gooders that check cars parked on their street will then see the ancient disc and think 'aha!' and then go calling the police/council only to end up looking like idiots.

In fact, I think everyone should put an old disc in their window. Maybe even for another vehicle just to get their hearts racing!

My displayed tax disc expires on 30/09/03

(I changed them over yesterday)

 

[Amberley54]

Arriva have apparantely removed tax discs from all of their buses over the past few days.

Collectors items or for the recycling bin?

 

[hassaanhc]

Arriva have apparantely removed tax discs from all of their buses over the past few days.

Collectors items or for the recycling bin?

I saw a Stagecoach London (Barking garage) bus that was not showing tax disc

 

[90019]

Lothian are leaving them in until they expire, from what's been said.

 

[Busaholic]

They've been doing it in the Republic of Ireland for Donkey's years.
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Here in Bristol we've now got hatchbacks with cameras on the roof driving around. They claim to be parking monitoring vehicles, but spend an awful lot of time driving up and down roads with no parking restrictions. Do these tie in with the other cameras I wonder, checking what's on the road?

They're probably all monitoring one another. I've lived in a few different places over the years but Bristol in the mid 1980s was the worst for draconian parking restrictions and tickets for the slightest infringement, right through til late in the evening. If the City Council had used a fraction of that money to improve the risible bus services or to help expand the local rail network it wouldn't have been so bad and fewer people would have found it necessary to use cars.

 

[O L Leigh]

Both wrong. Its only a 4 pot 1.8 as well. I haven't quite worked out why VAG put 5 valves per cylinder. Same engine as found in the Golf GTI Turbo but in a bit more conspicuous form:

Could be worse. I used to have a Tolly 2 with the 2.3 litre V5 170bhp engine. Very tasty car but quite thirsty and in a high tax bracket now.

I hope you won't expect it to be particularly practical. It has a big boot but a very small boot opening, somewhat like a letterbox.

O L Leigh

 

[richw]

Could be worse. I used to have a Tolly 2 with the 2.3 litre V5 170bhp engine. Very tasty car but quite thirsty and in a high tax bracket now.

I hope you won't expect it to be particularly practical. It has a big boot but a very small boot opening, somewhat like a letterbox.

O L Leigh

Very narrow boot I've already discovered, but once through the hatch its very deep.
Tax is high. I'm getting around 32mpg which I don't think is too bad for a big car.

 

[Kite159]

They're probably all monitoring one another. I've lived in a few different places over the years but Bristol in the mid 1980s was the worst for draconian parking restrictions and tickets for the slightest infringement, right through til late in the evening. If the City Council had used a fraction of that money to improve the risible bus services or to help expand the local rail network it wouldn't have been so bad and fewer people would have found it necessary to use cars.

I wonder how many parking tickets would be issued if revenue generated from them went into a central pot where the local authority can't touch.
Will it be a bit like speed cameras and suddenly the number of cameras going up will slow (and reverse in some places) when the money was taken away from them?

To councils, motorists are cash cows, there is talk of Test Valley doing away with free parking after 4pm in Andover, making it free parking after 6pm. Which will probably kill the town centre even more (majority of the shops closing at 5:30)

 

[richw]

I wonder how many parking tickets would be issued if revenue generated from them went into a central pot where the local authority can't touch.
Will it be a bit like speed cameras and suddenly the number of cameras going up will slow (and reverse in some places) when the money was taken away from them?

To councils, motorists are cash cows, there is talk of Test Valley doing away with free parking after 4pm in Andover, making it free parking after 6pm. Which will probably kill the town centre even more (majority of the shops closing at 5:30)

In my town the council stopped charging for Sunday parking in the main car park to try to help businesses on a Sunday. The town was packed the first few weeks with people, but other than the national chains nowhere bothered opening. We ended up with a packed town centre with nowhere open.
We have very few national chains in town - A Wilkos, a peacocks, Boots and Superdrug.