A number of years ago I met an old lady when I took my youngest to the play park. She said she no longer had a car - she’d worked out it was cheaper to get a taxi wherever she wanted to go. For some, that may be a sensible option.
Yes it can be but then it really restricts your life if you are still ok health wise, having to plan and phone a taxi to go somewhere.
Again only if you live in town or city. I guess. She was quite frail so probably made excellent sense.
I do. We love London. Historic places, theatres, great transportation.Who wants to go to London then…..?!?
Phil
If we all go to electric at the same time it will be a nightmare. There will be too few charging stations. Charging stations with incompatible charging connections and not enough trained mechanics to deal with breakdown issues.I spent the day in London yesterday, it is a fantastic place to spend a day in an EV. Special Parking for EVs, charging for EVs no congestion for EVs. It is like the old days. So is it time to go electric? Not just cars, motorbikes too. Proper motorbikes big jobbies all electric, they don't make a sound as they fly through the traffic and some of the very expensive kit the riders whare is sooooo.. futuristic. Is it now time to go electric or should we wait a little longer.
I do. We love London. Historic places, theatres, great transportation.
I was born in North London. Wouldn’t like to live there but love going there. We are lucky to have a ULEZ, LEZ, compliant vehicle so Abbey wood and Crystal Palace is now easy for us.Having worked there for many years….I guess I got fed-up with it……
Taxis can work out cheaper than buses if there are a few of you even in smaller towns
Not me Sh 1 t hole for years nowWho wants to go to London then…..?!?
You can take a horse to water Phil.I do. We love London. Historic places, theatres, great transportation.
The place is just amazing in so many ways. Yesterday I took someone up to a hospital in Highgate. It was an all day jobbi so we had a look around the cemetery and Karl Marx's headstone as well as the area itself just amazing.Abbey Wood is going to be an even more attractive site for London with the opening of the Elizabeth Line. Straight into the West End in 24mins.
Visiting is not compulsory JnJ
but do it in an EV and you just might enjoy the experience.....
Never counted but a lot of Tesla are evident. I also can't understand why motorcycles and cars are transported hundreds of miles to have a puncture repaired. I thought manufacturers were trying to reduce fuel usage. A BMW motorcycle was recently carried over 210 miles on a 7 5ton truck for a puncture repair. This isn't a one off case either.
National contracts and overall gains even with small losses in some areas
No thank you I worked in and around London for 35 yrs .Thank you for the invite but I will decline .It used to be a great place ,but alas no more .Visiting is not compulsory JnJ
Just what I was saying to an elderly relative recently, tax, insurance, fuel depreciation, you could get a taxi into town and back each day and it would be cheaper than running a car, but it’s the independence they cling to, plus they feel defeated when the day comes to stop driving.
Except the petrol pumps run on electric so they wouldn't have been able to work either?
The NEDL engineers were also saying there are people with electric cars stuck around the Dale without any power. Same with heat pumps, a couple I know and talked to in the village moved into a hotel during the power cut as they had their open fires/stoves removed and heat pump put in. Putting all their eggs in one basket.
I was chatting to my step-MIL yesterday and she said that she's going to give her car up next year once the insurance runs out (she's 91 now although she's been saying this for a few years!), they don't use it much but as she now has cataracts developing she no longer drives at night (as advised by her optician) and knows they will get worse so it's likely that this time she will let it go. They have quite a good choice of shops locally and it's only a 1 minute walk to a bus stop so with their bus passes can get to various supermarkets, towns etc FOC without any issues and of course for those non-standard trips they can get a taxi or one of the family will drive them. I don't know what her insurance is but it won't be cheap and of course looking after the car now it's getting on isn't cheap either. My FIL doesn't drive (not safe ... never has been IMV) so it something happened and she couldn't drive they'd have to use other means anyway which fortunately they have access to. I've been in the car with her and it wasn't great as she can drive well BUT she does speed although she denies it!
It cant be denied JnJ that parts of London have changed, my family were Thames watermen, father to son for centuries ending with myself and my brother. The docks have gone being replaced with expensive dwellings. The Royal docks have now become London City airport. I spent my school holidays on my fathers working boats heading for the career that disappeared from under us so I do understand change. However, I still love to visit these areas set out like villages alongside that magnificent river. This is why it has become a mecca for those who can afford to live there.
It’s just a money making scheme and run by an unelected quango
seems a fair well educated and informed point we should all take note of, Ill be sure te get a message to the world leaders and greta thunberg....NOT !
They lost money last year and asked the government to bail them out
And I bet there were people stuck around the dale with their petrol cars for exactly the same reasons. They were fools who didn't plan ahead.
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