Posts Tagged ‘ war on the motorist ’

What’s It Cost To Run A Bike?

What’s It Cost To Run A Bike?

According to the government, a whole lot less than you’d think. Up until today, you could claim 20p a mile for riding your bike in relation to your job - not for getting to work (that’s covered under the cycle to work scheme). That didn’t seem too bad to me - they’ll allow 40p a...
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Pickles and Hammond to end the war on motorists

Pickles and Hammond to end the war on motorists

This has got me shouting at my monitor in disbelief. Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said: “This is a key step in ending the war on the motorist. For years politicians peddled the pessimistic, outdated attitude that they could only cut carbon emissions by forcing people out of their cars. “But this Government recognises that cars are...
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Rememberance Sunday & The War On The Motorist

Rememberance Sunday & The War On The Motorist

Why do we remember still the horrors of the First World War? Is it because this was the first photographed war ? The poetry it inspired? The lost generation? The shear enormously overwhelming scale of the senseless slaughter? In the first 24 hours of the Battle of the Somme, 19,240 died on the British side...
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