I was thinking of making a topic about this myself, only you got out of bed first
. I think this is pretty ridiculous, thinking about it now, but I'm sure in time that it won't seem like anything. It does seem crazily expensive to me though, I watched the news yesterday and a woman on there did a theoretical drive, from just outside Manchester, into greater Manchester, it was a journey of 6 miles and had the "pay as you go" thing been already introduced, it would have cost her ?????????6.40p, now for 6 miles that is absolutely ridiculous. If thats the sort of cost we're looking at here, how much will it cost to go on holiday around the country? It'll probaby cost me more to go from here (Wolverhampton) to Cornwall, than it would for me to fly to France or something. Its like ..... er ..... how ever many hundred miles from here to Cornwall so thats like ?????????200 tax!!!. I think this pay as you go scheme may turn us all into couch potato's, while its designed to do the oppostie and get us walking, cycling and on the buses. The trouble with that is, as a nation we are just too lazy
At the moment, I use the bus to get from my house to the city centre, but when I get a car, I will want to drive it into town rather than take the bus, and with this new pay as you go scheme it'll cost me about ?????????6 to get from my house into Wolverhampton city centre in a car, whereas the bus is 50p ...... looks like I'll be taking the bus forever then [V]
Right now I think this is pretty stupid and far too expensive, but I'm sure in the future we might all thank it ..... well, probably not but whatever.