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A few thoughts. Robot Taxis/Self Driving Cars are priced as taxis and are unlikely to see price falls any time soon. Arguably, if someone were to use them rather than own a car, that may actually result in more public transport use. Making all public transport free would cost government...

The thing is HS2 (full Y) would have brought benefits to a lot of the country. Two things to note: - there's never been a report into what wider changes could have come about, for example the extra space at New Street could have created more Birmingham to Wales services - there's never been a...

Indeed, (and yes itwas Project Thor) as I've said before wee could have seen: IWC 20×5 coach 221 sets XC 34×5 coach 220 sets XC 7×5 coach 221 sets XC 13x9 coach 221 sets As that's 87 new vehicles and typically prices reduce at around 100 vehicles it might have been better to do this: ICWC 13...

The problem with a 7 coach set is that is a much higher capacity train (464 seats assuming 48 first class seats) which puts it bigger than a 4+5 train formed of 22x's units (446 seats with 52 first class seats). Whilst that may not sound like a problem, it doesn't give those services already...

New trains would likely be significantly cheaper to run than the current 22x fleet (lower diesel costs, likely lower track access charges, fewer trains formed of pairs of units, etc.).

There's no realistic chance of having any driving speed limits of over 100mph. First up our roads are too busy, there would be so few chances to travel at over 90mph that it's just not worth the change. The biggest barrier however is likely the fact that other traffic would just not be...

Like most things it's not a clear cut answer. Whilst Virgin ordered the trains the number of coaches ordered was set by the SRA and as such was a political decision rather than commercial. Could he have pushed back, or got some agreement for a follow on order subject to passenger growth, could...

Whilst I agree with the point about swappable batteries being similar to hydrogen for land transport fuel, I recon that using some spare batteries for load balancing whilst still being able to swap others to keep cars running could have been made to work. Whether that's practical and profitable...

Ten years time things are likely to be quite different: - there's likely to be around 1 million more social homes built in that time (the vast majority, if not all, with personal car chargers) - a lot of those currently over 90 (born 1936 or earlier, so entertaining work circa 1950 and...

The thing with L plates is that they can be left on a vehicle with limited legal consequences. If such plates were inadvertently left on it could allow drivers who weren't entitled to do so to get away with speeding (as the vast majority of speeding is detected by cameras). The main issue...

Indeed, which was why I cited a daily use of 20 miles and only gave the example of it being able to be higher if there was a charger at work, with the thinking being that it would be parked for much of the day. The main point being that whilst the range maybe a tenth of some EV's the milage...

Even with a number of kids and doing 240 mile trips with them to see family several times a year, our average car occupancy per mile is still likely to be fairly low. Before anything else my wife does around 5,000 miles a year getting to and from work on her own, so even if the remaining 7,000...

There's an argument that by setting a target that they know they are going to miss it's not the real target. as it maybe what they really want is by setting it much higher there's a better chance that they will hit the original (lower target). The fact that almost no councils have 3 years of...

Having a defining plate only works if the car is only ever driven by a sole driver, wouldn't work if there's others driving it. Especially if there's a highly qualified driver with a learner driver in the household using the same car.

My EV has a range of "only" 6 times the distance. Also, depending on usage it's possible to do a lot more than 50% of the annual milage by using electric. For example, someone doing 20 miles a day going to and from work (working full time) could do 4,000 miles solely on electric. If they can...

This could be investing to see what comes from it: New challenge launched to store clean energy for longer and protect households from price spikes - GOV.UK https://share.google/efIWMZLsc4VDH58uM

In 2024 there were less than 110,000 asylum seekers, I recon a single restaurant could sell more unlimited drinks refills (about 300 per day) than the number of "unlimited" illegal immigrants.

Indeed should be at least 80%, anything less than 70% should be embarrassing.

Also confirmed by another candidate:

"Apparently" he was told not to attend the count by the police, so he's already avoiding Clacton on Sea.