• Hence their tactics:-

    • Slowly ratchet up fuel duty
    • Ratchet up VED for the worst offending vehicles
    • Lower VED for the cleaner vehicles (and then get fucked over by VW spoofing results, etc)
    • Zero rated VED for green vehicles
    • Allow initial testing of driverless vehicles
    • Move to newer technology (like ANPR equipped patrol cars cross linked with insurance/MOT/VED databases) to increase compliance
    • Invest in better public transport
    • Don't invest as much in new roads
    • Campaigns to get people to live healthier where they will (hopefully) leave the car at home for some journeys

    Smoking:

    • Slowly ratchet up tobacco duty
    • Ban smoking from bars
    • Ban smoking from many public places
    • New technology (vaping, that is way less harmful)
    • etc

    Slowly slowly catchy monkey. Nudge. Or whatever else you want to call it.

  • Yet the real term cost of motoring has fallen massively while the cost of public transport has risen disproportionately. Public perception is that there is a 'war on motoring' and motorists are treated as a cash cow, when they aren't. There's a long way to go.

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