Transport -
Anti-Car Policy 2
Anti-car
policies include:
Charging for access to city centres, increased
during peak hours.
Motorway tolls.
Digital speed cameras that threaten to turn the
entire motorway and trunk road network into one
giant speed trap.
Restricting access to certain motorways at peak
times.
A £400+ a year tax on parking spaces at work.
Forcing residents to pay to park outside their
own homes.
Forcing out-of-town shopping centres to charge
for car-parking.
Large tax rises for company car users.
Increasing the already extortionate petrol tax
each year by 5% more than inflation.
Deliberately creating congestion by the
imposition of pointless bus lanes.
It
has been claimed that homes and businesses in
Britain are threatened by devastating flooding as
global warming takes hold. And, as it is the
motorists fault, the government must encourage
motorists to abandon their cars if it wants to
make any impact on the causes of global warming.
The study into rising seas and increased rainfall
concludes five million people and most of the
country's best farmland are at risk. Researchers
describe global warming as "the greatest
threat facing the world community".
They say 180,000 businesses, 1.8 million homes
and 3.5 million acres covering 61% of grade-one
land in England and Wales is at risk at a cost of
£222bn. Half the properties are in the London
region of the Thames, affecting 750,000 people in
the capital and putting in jeopardy the city's
financial future. The report calls for increased
energy efficiency to cut carbon dioxide
emissions. And in what the paper claims is the
most controversial recommendation, the study
urges the government to encourage people to give
up their cars.
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