| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Cars, Cherry Trees, Chiswick and Carbon | |
| Posted by: | David Lesniak | |
| Date/Time: | 25/02/20 07:12:00 |
| To your point, Ed, about number plate recognition and to Michael's point about road pricing, some stretch of CHR could be limited to local traffic only. The stretch of CHR from Goldhawk to Chiswick Lane is a segment of the connection from the A40 to the A4. If number plate recognition were to begin at this junction, anyone passing through that barrier who was not local would be issued a penalty. It would be a sort of mini-congestion zone. There would need to be a western barrier as well, maybe Chiswick Business Park. This is also an issue in the states in/near NYC. Communities just outside the Lincoln Tunnel and GW Bridge in New Jersey have forever been dealing with commuters rat running due to traffic and they are struggling to find ways to limit road use to locals only. One problem is flexibility in case of emergency. Sometimes a crossing gets closed so obviously it creates an issue so folks shouldn't be penalized for having to take an alternate route because of circumstances beyond their control. Other forms of road pricing will also become inevitable such as cycle license fees. Free infrastructure will ostensibly be the promotional gambit but once government realizes revenue decreases with fewer private vehicles, it will need to close the gap somehow. If fees go up for commercial use be it Uber or lorry deliveries, those increases would be passed to the end user/customer. As for developers and parking, ask estate agents about this. New builds with limited parking are difficult to shift. Perhaps parking is limited only to electric vehicles. But parking space is a commodity and comes at a price. That price might be astronomical, but it could also be used to generate public funds. Makes me think I just bought some LED bulbs. We have a VAT number so we weren't charged VAT but we were charged an Ecotax which I questioned. It was new to me. So even though we bought LED low-energy bulbs in a sense we were penalized because any form of lighting MIGHT use energy from less efficient suppliers. Or a bit like a cigarette tax. |