Compulsory car sharing lanes etc

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Sun 9 Nov 2008 18:19
Compulsory car sharing lanes etc - mattbod
As well as being determined to railroad tolls through against public opinion as well as retrospective car tax; the government want to introduce compulsory car sharing lanes on 500 miles of motorway and A road,penalty for breach £100. The mileage will probably go up.

I will keep my thoughts to myself but what do you think?
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Sun 9 Nov 2008 18:28
Compulsory car sharing lanes etc - Rattle
I think the population of Canada is going to increase quite soon. I am sure you can see what I am getting at.

Personally in some cases they are good idea but it is hard to make it practical. E.g my job I am self employed so it only one person can ever be in the car.

Still this scheme should surely help adult shops turn over increase when people find another use for blow up dolls :D;

Edited by Rattle on 09/11/2008 at 18:28

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Mon 10 Nov 2008 06:34
Compulsory car sharing lanes etc - Ian (Cape Town)
Aaah, car-pooling raises its head again!
Yes, in theory a good idea.
In practice, maybe not so.
The Yanks seem to have it right, but then they yanks do not have the same mentality as the anglos when it comes to dealing with, or accepting, strangers into their 'personal space'.
I live in an anglophile nation, and the same attitude prevails here.
At one stage, I was commuting to an 8:00 to 5:00 job, right in the heart of Cape Town's CBD - my office overlooked the railway station, so you couldn't get more central than that!
I live in a suburb about 20kms away, where a lot of dwellers also work in the CBD. In fact, anywhere within the central district was, at most, a 10 minute walk.
At one stage I tried to start off a lift-share scheme, considering I saw the same cars, most days, on the same commute as myself, each with just one occupant.
Any responses? Not a sausage!



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Mon 10 Nov 2008 07:26
Compulsory car sharing lanes etc - Westpig
there are down sides to car sharing..from an employers perspective too

some of my staff car share, because they live so far away from work (London property prices)...my perception is some get fidgety and rush things at the end of a shift, because they don't want to miss their lift

in theory this could mean half a job being done or work being dodged altogether

it's obviously worse the more people there are using the same lift
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Mon 10 Nov 2008 08:07
Compulsory car sharing lanes etc - Westpig
i've remembered an amusing tale from my own early car sharing days

some years back (nearer 20 if i'm honest) a few of us used to car share, on shift work from N.London into Central London as 4 of us lived relatively near by

one of us, 'D', was a James May type character, ex public school boy with a delightfully plummy accent and sense of humour to go with it. He drove an early 80's VW Polo economy thing..which had little dash board lights that lit up when it was being driven economically and higher gearing if memory serves me correctly, 'mater' had donated it to him. Anyway this chap used to drive as often as possible with the economy lights on....which meant that when you were in his car you never kept up with traffic flow, were the last away from the lights when they changed etc, etc....which was quite frustrating to young testosterone filled lads, particularly as the rest of us had cars like XR3i's and XR2's and drove them in the stereotypical way those drivers did in the 80's.

one morning it was my turn to drive, two of the lads turned up at my flat in chummy's Polo..but i'd overslept and wasn't anywhere near ready...(they had to endure neanderthal man waving at them from my first floor window dressed only in a pair of shreddies)..so those two went on and I had to rush in late, desperate to get there quickly enough not to have to buy the whole team cream cakes, which was the usual fine for lateness.

when i got there, the other chap (the passenger) couldn't wait to tell me that 'D' had had an accident on the way in, when he'd rear ended someone at a set of traffic lights... which meant the whole of that shift 'D' was ribbed mercilessly about how he'd managed to have an accident despite the fact he never usually drove fast enough... he of course tried to deflect it to me as I should have been driving

poor sod...he'd saved various pence per journey on driving economically, then had a couple of hundred quid repair for the front of his car...did feel a bit sorry for him.. didn't tell him of course.
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Mon 10 Nov 2008 08:16
Compulsory car sharing lanes etc - Big Bad Dave
"economy thing..which had little dash board lights that lit up"

I had a Peugeot 505 with this Westpig also about 20 years ago. I think it went Green - Yellow - Red if I remember, depending on your right foot. Anyway, in your colleague's defence - it was very addictive.
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