Military convoys, and, with a bit of luck, all military vehicles. Ancient, slow, ill-maintained (because they are always breaking down and have faulty lights) and driven by the terminally inept. And let's not hear any nonsense about National security; if they can't keep up with modern traffic, what chance would they have on a battlefield? I've always wondered why, if they are exempt from VED and MoTs, their drivers need to bother with a civvie driving test.
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I wouldn't want to see any type of vehicle banned from public roads. Have a heart, guys and gals. Apart from anything else this would reduce demand for that type of vehicle and this would lead to unemployment, which is currently one of society's biggest problems. Let's just hope that none of you voters ever become forcibly unemployed. This is one poll in which I will NOT vote.
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L\'escargot by name, but not by nature.
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Can we have a "None" category??
(And "big 4x4s" just to annoy Mark??? :) )
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Can we have a "None" category?? (And "big 4x4s" just to annoy Mark??? :) )
But that might annoy other folks too, which would reduce the number of folks who would vote for it.
If you really want to just annoy Mark, you need to maximise the vote, so why not make it more specific? e.g. big Toyota 4X4s owned by men with small kids
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(And "big 4x4s" just to annoy Mark??? :) )
Damn, I knew I forgot that one.
Maybe I should have combined JCB diggers and agricultural machinery together. I would have had room for it then. (poll software only allows 10 choices)
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I think there's a white paper coming out that will ban all vehicles that are classed as dangerous to foxes. This should include most of the above!
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Given that all bar this one are integral (in some way) to the running of the country, I'd have to say CARAVANS!!!
(Although I'd quite happily live on processed food if agricultural vehicles were banned!)
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All bar two then. Although just pretend I classed camper vans with caravans.
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After my drive to work I'd welcome the replacement of all JCBs on the road by any of the others (and a whole fleet of 4x4s!!!)
JCB ban it is
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Why not horses?
No tax, no insurance, no license for "driver", no fitness for use, no blame for accidents, high "local" pollution with no cleanup required!
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Why not horses? No tax, no insurance, no license for "driver", no fitness for use, no blame for accidents, high "local" pollution with no cleanup required!
eh lad, where I live, t'local emissions from horses are promtly retrieved by gardeners who keep a bucket and shovel handy for that purpose. Great stuff to make the roses grow, and better than having to pay someone to deliver it.
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JCB's definetly. These should be on back of HGV's when transported. Seeing these on dual carriageways makws me mad. Accidents waiting to happen and the utter selfishness of the drivers. Tractors too, had run in with one a while back www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=29821&...f
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Frightened to include bicycles then?
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Frightened to include bicycles then?
Poll software can only manage 10 choices.
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cant vote on this one as the users of all these vehicles could argue that they are essential, even caravans look at any major works on motorways miles from anywhere the workers often live in caravans in a compound on site...cheers...keo.
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I would of thought it would have to be caravans surely for everyones sake!!
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"caravans surely for everyones sake!!"
and yet, didn't that experiment of making caravans stick to the inside lane on the M5 last summer result in a statement that it wasn't caravans that caused hold-ups?
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As said above, all of the listed types are essential to the running of the country to some extent.
What is not essential is agricultural machinery that has not had its wheels washed. That, we should ban immediately.
And enforce the ban, also. Just as soon as we have a "muddy tractor camera".
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What is not essential is agricultural machinery that has not had its wheels washed. That, we should ban immediately.
I know lots of farmers who work fields which are separated from their farm by a public road, but few fields have a tap at the gate, and few could have one without great expense.
To my mind, agricultural vehicles and muddy roads are one the things which we will inevitably have on rural roads until we give up agriculture. But given the way that argicultural economics are going, that may not be long -- and then we can have rural roads unencumbered by anything rural, which I guess some folks will see as a form of progress.
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And I know of a farm that is taking the mick and leaving the road unsafe over about 1/2 a mile over precisely the spot where drivers are meant to be slowing down for a village.
Crossing the road is one thing. That farm is another. Time for some sensitive enforcement? (if we still know what that is!)
And it makes my 911 dirty ;-)
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Time trial cyclists. They are my no.1 candidate for banning.
I'm not anti-cyclist by any means. I enjoy riding my bicycle and I'm a member of Sustrans, but people who organise time trials on stretches of A roads are anti-social and causing a hazard.
Cheers, Sofa Spud
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Time trial cyclists. They are my no.1 candidate for banning. I'm not anti-cyclist by any means. I enjoy riding my bicycle and I'm a member of Sustrans, but people who organise time trials on stretches of A roads are anti-social and causing a hazard.
Please elaborate.
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As a Time Trial cyclist at many different periods in my life, I would have to ask why? Riders in these events set off at one minute intervals, seeded to ensure there is no risk of bunching and they only ride on roads where cyclists are legally entitled to ride anyway.
There are occassionally fatalities in these events, almost exclusively caused by motorists running into the back of a rider. It dies not tax the imagination too much to work out who would be negligent in such an accident, and a cyclist would argue that a driver who was incompetent enough to run into the back of a cyclist is not fit to hold a driving licence.
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Time Trial cyclist? they are a danger.
Usually driven at speed, head down bum up, very thin wheels that means a sweet paper will buckle them so the riders swerve all over the road avoiding anyting in their path oblivious to anything around them.
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Why are cyclists allowed to hold time trials on public roads when it is illegal for any other vehicle to race? Please don't say it's because they're slower than cars or motorbikes. It's more to do with safety.
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Why are cyclists allowed to hold time trials on public roads when it is illegal for any other vehicle to race? Please don't say it's because they're slower than cars or motorbikes. It's more to do with safety. --
Because they are. Because we live in a country where everything other than going to work and going home again is not illegal because somebody else doesn't like it.
At the moment, anyway.
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What about stretched limos?
Or are they classed as buses?
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One used to come across cyclists doing time trials along smooth A roads, back and forth between two checkpoints a mile or two apart. I haven't seen so many recently. I don't know the exact rules of time trialling, but to me it is hazardous to organise an event on a main road where cyclists are riding strung out along the road in both directions with a half a mind on a competition rather than a whole mind on road safety.
Sure, if a motorist hits a time trial cyclist, it's probably the motorist's fault. The same is true if one has an accident overtaking a JCB. There was a spate a few years ago of pairs of lorries from the same company apparently driving side by side for miles on the M25 in lanes 1 and 2 as a kind of show-off thing - again, probably not illegal but anti-social and hazardous.
Cheers, Sofa Spud
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I was going to say stretch limos, prompted by an item about them on TV. But someone beat me to it!
Smaller stretch limos should come under minibus legislation and larger ones should be classed as PCVs.
Cheers, SS
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Another candidate for banning - those mobile sandwich boards - light trucks or trailers with sloping boards whose sole purpose is to drive around busy roads displaying big advertising posters.
Cheers, SS
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I would like to see a chauffeur take a wrong turning into a cul-de-sac & then having to do a three-point turn in the middle of the street lol!!!
I think a Mitsu EVO VII will have a better chance with its poor turning circle!!
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The results of this weeks poll are:-
Poll 32. Which of the following would you like banned from all public roads?
Agricultural machinery = 14 (15%)
Busses = 4 (4%)
HGV's = 2 (2%)
White van man = 12 (13%)
Camper vans = 1 (1%)
Motor bikes = 2 (2%)
JCB diggers = 16 (18%)
All cars = 1 (1%)
Military convoys = 4 (4%)
Caravans = 32 (36%)
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