Saturday dawned like thunder out of China across the bay. Not because of the party on Friday, because the vision for road pricing had been leaked.
Right, this is how it will work. It won't.
It's all about bands, inner city band, outer and inner suburban bands rural bands and for those driving a Honda Jazz the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. You will be billed for miles driven in each one. So inner cities will be £1.35 a mile, inner suburbs a bit less and outer suburbs less still. The countryside will be billed at 2p per mile for cars and 1p for horse drawn vehicles depending on hay-per-hour consumption and emissions.
Cars will be tracked either through GPS-linked black boxes or more likely the same sort of tags used by regular commuters through tunnels and across toll bridges.
Now here's the really unbelievable bit; all in all, says the transport department, it won't add to the average motorist's annual bill. Why then are we bothering?
More importantly, Friday's 21st birthday party. Not once was I asked what car to buy but there was the obligatory 'what the lad did as a child' story. In this case the twins. They washed dad's car with turps. Got any similar stories to tell? Tell 'em here- but not the ones about video turps
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