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Woking to Heathrow
On 2017-04-07 07:52:49 +0000, Recliner said:
Yes, there are age limits in London: There are other ways of enforcing that kind of thing than an in-person inspection, though I'll be honest, I don't support it. There is no reason to single out specific vehicles on the road for emissions restrictions. It should be all vehicles, nationally, or not at all. In practice high fuel taxes handle it naturally for most people - this is a much less blunt instrument. It's one of the many reasons I would put VED onto fuel, and look to move long-term to handling this for plug-in vehicles via road pricing of some kind. London taxis and private hire vehicles also have to have standard MoT tests every six months plus an annual taxi vehicle specific inspection: http://www.thechauffeur.com/new-doub...ire-operators/ If the MoT is inadequate, it (and enforcement and spot-checks) needs beefing up, again for *all* vehicles, not just private hire. Neil -- Neil Williams Put my first name before the @ to reply. |
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Neil Williams wrote:
On 2017-04-07 07:52:49 +0000, Recliner said: Yes, there are age limits in London: There are other ways of enforcing that kind of thing than an in-person inspection, though I'll be honest, I don't support it. There is no reason to single out specific vehicles on the road for emissions restrictions. It should be all vehicles, nationally, or not at all. In practice high fuel taxes handle it naturally for most people - this is a much less blunt instrument. It's one of the many reasons I would put VED onto fuel, and look to move long-term to handling this for plug-in vehicles via road pricing of some kind. London taxis and private hire vehicles also have to have standard MoT tests every six months plus an annual taxi vehicle specific inspection: http://www.thechauffeur.com/new-doub...ire-operators/ If the MoT is inadequate, it (and enforcement and spot-checks) needs beefing up, again for *all* vehicles, not just private hire. That would significantly push up the cost of running private cars, most of which do much lower mileages than taxis and minicabs. Also, we insist on higher safety standards for all forms of public transport than for private travel, so why should taxis be different? |
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On 2017-04-07 09:15:15 +0000, Recliner said:
That would significantly push up the cost of running private cars, most of which do much lower mileages than taxis and minicabs. Also, we insist on higher safety standards for all forms of public transport than for private travel, so why should taxis be different? Because taxis are not really public transport. And many private cars do very high mileages. A fair solution might be that the MoT is completed once every 1 year or 15K miles, say. Neil -- Neil Williams Put my first name before the @ to reply. |
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