Fairly widespread in inner Cambridge (19th c terraced streets typically). Car bloat means markings often overspilled and, of course, no enforcement maps.app.goo.gl/9ocpR2bvDgM6...

There's a wider good tax policy point that taxes should be lowest % possible on widest possible definition of (here) income, without multiple complex and distortive carve-outs. But (qv pasty tax) making rushed changes to benefit the budget arithmetic just ends up looking mean and perverse.

Well, yes! But I would take some persuading that it has much impact on modal shift. If not nicked, bikes last forever. And for most, the binding constraint is whether there are safe, pleasant, routes.

Round here solar scheme opponents run a strong poster game (much of it illegal highway flyposting 😬) and active on social media. Yet IRL not met anyone bothered about it.

Viva SHOUT!

All he had to do was read and draw on crystal-clear analysis published by @instituteforgovernment.org.uk just two weeks ago @cassiarowland.bsky.social @njdavies.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

If true another case of wasting first 18 months with a huge majority. Imagine if they had set up a Turner Commission style process on motor taxation in the first Budget...

I agree. In any event, Wes S has congratulated him. Each to their own.

Never mind shrugging aside nurse's advice, I have come across a totally unqualified "medical adviser" to a social landlord asserting they knew better than a *professor consultant* at a London teaching hospital specialising in tenant's rare illness.

I still remember cycling to work in SW1 from SE London on 17 Feb 2003 and, after all the scaremongering, being astonished by how transformative the CC was, not just in the charging zone but 2-3 miles beyond. Prices work.