Motorists should fund public transport

No

Its a 45 minuet drive for me in to work and costs me around £8 a day in fule. Getting to work by public transport would double the time taken to get in to work and would work out far more expensive. 5 min walk to the bus stop, 45 mins on the bus to the nearest train station (aprox £5.50 return), 30 minuets on the train (aprox £7.50 retrun) then 15 min walk to the office). Even with 20% off the cost of the public transport I would still be looking at a daily travel cost of £10.40 and I would be waisting an hour and a half of my own time.

I also don't agree that car who make up 21% of emissions pay 89% of the environmental taxes.

By Sean_87 on 8 July, 2011, 1:36pm

Since Zac Goldsmith is a multi millionaire, let him funds his wild dreams of green poop.
Part of also why public transport is high is to do with these same loonies in government. Wasting money replacing buses well before end of life i.e. in London the drive to get everybus low floor well before the 2017 deadline happened around 2005. Then we had the case of this clown LEZ that put a further cost on public transport bring buses up to euro 3 and euro 4 , then now the trains fares are high due to incompetant deals with private engineering firms and over paid execs and management who cant even run a reliable decent railway.

By hotredman on 8 July, 2011, 3:35pm

And once these genious MPs have succeeded in 'tempting drivers out of their cars' and revenue from from fuel duty falls, What then??

By greenbank9 on 8 July, 2011, 6:37pm

feel for ya

The Greens here are getting a foothold too. Now throwing around a VMT(vehicle mileage tax)to fund high speed rail and "get motorists out of their cars". I used buses once to get to work and it was OK,but the start was in front of my house and the end was in front of my place of employment and the route was one of the few without tranfers. Otherwise I don't use piblic transport because of the lost time and allthe loonies you end up locked in a box with. Your government and mine get well enough from our wallets every year and don't need anymore if the would just properly manage what they steal from us every year. Ever noticed the ones im government that tout public transport will never have to use it or won't because it wouldn't be safe for them because of their 'position'? Remember these people during the next elections my friends and for chrissake VOTE.

By RIFLEMAN on 10 July, 2011, 12:21am

Here we go again

Why does the motorist ALWAYS get targetted? Aren't we paying a heck of a lot into the government coffers? Leave is alone!!

By dastardly01 on 10 July, 2011, 3:43pm

Joke!

So motorists fund public transport which aims to get motorists to use public transport, so then we won't be motorists and we won't fund public transport, so public transport will be as bad as it is now and we will all become motorists again..... and so the ludicrous cycle continues.

By JamesRiley on 10 July, 2011, 5:47pm

High time rich MPs got a real job on an average salary

Of course, all taxpayers including the extra paid by drivers already heavily subsidise public transport. From a purely financial point of view it would make sense to tempt people off public transport and into cars - the government makes a big profit out of cars/drivers and a big loss out of bus and rail. Furthermore, moving 5% of cars journeys onto public transport would require a 50% increase in public transport capacity. It ain't gonna happen and public transport is rarely comparable with the 'door to door go when you please' ability of car travel.

Zac Goldsmith is just another Out of Touch Rich MP who suddenly became an environmental 'expert' because rich daddy's money bought him Ecology Magazine.

By biggsy24 on 15 July, 2011, 7:45am