Will they have the nerve? No Scottish or UK Government has so far. Sarah Boyack tried in the first year of the Scottish Parliament and got rubbished by the Daily Record - and her own party.
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"Motorists face £250-a-year tax to park at work"
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Posted 13 years ago #
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If it's somewhere with ample public transport/cycling facilities, then I think it would be a good thing, however if it is somewhere that you can't get to easily with a frequent public transport service/cycling facilities then it should not be implemented for that location.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Aye, it's probably all about the stick and nothing about the carrot.
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How about charging the employer, they can then decide if they are going to pass it on to the lackey.
The employer should then be able to offset the cash if they can demonstrate sufficient investments in keeping people out their cars. Schemes like interest free loans on advance purchase season passes for the trains/buses, offering cycle scheme, providing more than adequet cycle parking at the expense of car spaces and if possible showers.
Bigger employers with much larger contributions could fund better general cycle infrastructure (instead of the tax) using this, RBS at Goger would end up with a huge bill but this could pay for a nice and maintained cycle/walking path beside the A8 all the way to the airport instead of the scabby one that is there. They could even be allowed to make it look like they are doing out of the goodness of their heart instead of a govt stick.
The rest of the money could go to LRT to support less popular routes like the 1 where people live and work on the route but its so unreliable that people take the car instead. I know i did when i lived up Clermiston but worked in Gorgie.
My current employer are pretty good with only 11 spaces for various high heid yuns (out of an office of >300) and more than 3 times that in well used cycle spaces, showers are provided as is a drying room for the inevitable wet day. A firm like mine could easily afford to swallow the 3k charge for the seinouries but with already good cycle provision they would get most of it back to support what they already do (carrot?).
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Would this end up being those who walk, cycle or take public transport to work subsidising those who drive? And remember, it's far more than workplaces with car parking spaces. "Anyone" can drive most of the way and walk or cycle or bus the remaining distance, which in suitably high numbers becomes a parking displacement exercise identical to the CPZ extension.
I'd quite like to be paid £250 a year to not drive to work, but I'd probably become indignant if I needed a car once or twice a month, but was stung for the same amount as a daily driver.
Posted 13 years ago # -
What happen if you work from home???
Posted 13 years ago # -
Experts on local government believe that authorities may have little alternative but to
turn to drivers as a source of incomestop subsidising drivers. Is closer to the truth.In the same paper we also have the new that Cycling Proficiency test facing axe, so what does this really tell us about the "Big Society"...
Posted 13 years ago # -
"I'd quite like to be paid £250 a year to not drive to work"
I seem to remember there was such a scheme/incentive in North America(?) at a university(?).
Also there was a lot of work done in Nottingham with large employers (public and private) where it was shown how much it actually cost the employer to provide parking - land/tarmac/maintenance etc.
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My employer goes to the expense of maintaining vast tracts of valuable land for the purposes of employees parking their cars. They also maintain - at considerable expense - an online space booking system, employees to manage said system, manned entrance booths, pass-activated barrier systems and car park security patrols (admittedly mainly to catch space cheats). In winter they pay good money to make sure that the car parks and entrance roads are gritted and salted and seem to have better access to these services than my experience of the roads around schools last year.
The least they could do is give me my share of the money I am saving them by choosing not to drive. I think a nice new bicycle would keep me happy :)
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