Recent content by corfield

Which is a meaningless statement. You may as well say that canal barges are a significant, if not predominant form of permament dwelling in … appropriate locations. The discussion was about what was the overwhelming proportion of new homes. The facts completely support that it is low...

Notably you can’t respond to the point that the investment in a car gives you massive ongoing benefits for cost efficient travel. You do understand the principle of investment vs say consumption? Some us do buy the barrel because that is more cost efficient. The problem then is it is very time...

The poll tax was explicitly designed to relate to the services used which were and are broadly similar per head. Vs rates and council tax which are property value related and see richer people (judged on property value) paying many multiples of what poorer people pay. Arbitrary but arguably...

Sigh. Really? It is obviously a poll tax. It is a distinct tax that you have to pay in a lump sum/installments etc. regardless of means in order to do something. The poll tax actually kind of made sense in some aspects in that we all paid for the service we used. But that didn’t matter. Its...

Eh? The pint lasts 20 minutes, the train ticket a journey. The car gives you freedom for years and years. Can you really not see the difference? My car car from new cost me 1.5k year depreciation. That’s barely 10 train tickets up and down the country. As value for money for the 8.5k miles...

Haven’t we done this? Development is sub 20% flats, which accounting for low rise means say half or less is high rise. My old city has demolished what it built, new low rise development there instead. The idea of cities in the sky is dead as a dodo, even if in a few highly urban areas a few...

What you find will be of little relevence to a Govt trying to bring in road pricing and facing existing EV owners massively losing out and a very direct, regressive, poll tax like imposition on nearly everyone. That bought down a titan of a PM. Can you see our current crop of actual and...

I dont think many people really care about rural users more than they do now, which isn’t very much - and I doubt rural types care much for townies either. Choose to live remotely then please do so and I’m sure the benefits are great, but nothing comes without cost just as those who make...

But this doesnt really matter. Why are we bothered about utilisation per se? Do we double all journey times, car and bus, to get a higher value? Do we want to encourage (even) more journeys that could be say walked to get a higher value? Fundamentally it is about cost:benefit, the benefits...

Personally I think “its physics jim”, and that car numbers will plateau as per any natural “S shaped” system, thus a “finalish” road system could be conceived. Well, unless you keep adding lots of population that is. That points to the core issue that is unsustainable which is growth of...

But its not justified on congestion any more than the Congestion Charge or ULEZ is. All of this is simply a “get tax money at minimal effort”, any nominal rationale is irrelevent really, merely spin. Which is why I question whether the regressive aspects of road pricing (currently hidden within...

To be fair, initial searching only threw up masses of links detailing conversions and total numbers. It was surprisingly hard to get a breakdown, google is not what it was. I suspect most of the c.20% flats are in low rise, but stats seem thin on the ground. Going back to the point, I don’t...

The poorest are far more in need of a private vehicle than a bus, although as above, 75% already have one. One of the biggest accomplishments of the last what, 6, decades has been the ability of even the poorest quintile to overwhelmingly own private vehicles with the massive advantages they...

It will be because any kind of “do it elsewhere” will be some or all of: expensive, damaging to batteries over long term, massively inconvenient time burden. Hence why the acolytes all have driveway charging off cheap overnight rates and only mugs and the desperate do otherwise. Fast chargers...

The point was your attempt to pitch this so rapidly resorted to threats. Great pitch. Good luck getting voters on board with that approach. At present they are negligible, wrapped up with a sales tax, 99% of which the admin is borne by the collector. As utility firms show, a massive...