Dave Plowman (News)
Speed Humps "Save Lives". Allegedly. 5231Adrian pretended : IMHO they serve no real useful pupose as their effect (the cushion type) on different vehicle types varies so much. I can drive my car over them squarely wheels either side of them...
I don't.
I don't have to.
I don't live there, I don't work there, and I never go there (any more) on a weekday - not even to spend money.
As a pure aside, if that is the reason for it, you could surely have no objection if the county councils of the Home Counties were to introduce a trunk-road congestion charge payable only by residents of the Smoke - could you?
But enough of that - we both know that the "Congestion" Tax fulfils two purposes:
(a) it hurts people that Mad Ken has taken it into his "brain" to dislike (ie, the sort of people who earn their own living, pay the taxes that pay his wages, pay for their own transport needs several times over and are still seen as nothing more than The Bank of Ken), and
(b) it raises money to be spent on other people, who are considered by Mad Ken to be somehow "deserving", because they have different qualities.
Well, as Huge has already said, I (and millions of others) already pay - handsomely - for something better and more suited to my-our needs than public transport. Or at least, better than the sort of public transport run by fanatics like your hero.
