- cross-posted to:
- fuck_cars
- cross-posted to:
- fuck_cars
It’s almost like car infrastructure has dogshit durability and longevity and is a massive money sink compared to more efficient transportation infrastructures!
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It’s also disingenuous lies. This money is being spent over 11 years so is more in the realm of £750m a year.
This is also a classic trick of the Conservative government and is why the NHS is also in a mess: they steal money from capital investment budgets and use it to spend on day-to-day operational stuff.
In the NHS they took money from the capital budget and diverted it to day to day spending, claiming it as “new money”. It was an increase in day-to-day spending but it was not new money. Instead NHS trusts now have big backlogs of equipment and buildings needing replacement and being used beyond intended life cycle because the money was stolen.
Pot hole repair is day-to-day road maintenance, not infrastructure or capital investment. HS2 was a new capital project. This is just more bullshit lies by the government and a huge issue here is how shit journalism is now. The BBC hasn’t questioned this spending pledge at all, instead it’s posted a bullshit superficial article on potholes.
I’m not a brit, but shit like this makes me want to start putting potholes in the heads of politicians
he needs a trip to Dallas
It’s so funny how the conservatives had a little bit of success in one constituency that didn’t want ULEZ, and they’ve now made “end the war on motorists” one of their main goals…
“Throw shit, see what sticks” really sums up the conservative government under Sunak.
Their entire platform is based on us-vs-them mentality, hate, not to mention some generous donations from UK petroleum and automobile corporations. “End the war on motorists” is right up their alley.
this guy needs a trip to Dallas
He’ll probably enjoy it and take plenty of notes
on a sunny afternoon…
… in a convertible
I’ve heard a couple people claim they need an SUV because the roads are so bad. And I admit that driving on a bad road in a normal sized car is not fun. But maybe we’d have more money for fixing roads if we had fewer roads.
Roads are bad > get bigger car > makes roads worse
If we follow this loop then everyone’s gonna be driving monster trucks…
i question whether it even feels better, since it’s a bigger heavier vehicle which means there’s even more weight to slam down onto the suspension…
i’d go for as small and light of a vehicle as possible with the best suspension available, that should comparatively float over potholes
Smaller vehicles tend to have smaller tire diameters. This leta the vehicles sink deeper into the potholes compared to larger tires that are better able to bridge across it.
Maybe if we built some kind of road with rails on it we could avoid the potholes…
“For too long politicians have shied away from taking the right long-term decisions to make life easier for hardworking families”
Im sure 100 years from now we’ll be looking at decisions like this fondly. When AC malfunctions are death sentences.
Remember that episode of Doctor Who where everyone was trapped on the highway, going round and round for centuries? It’ll be like that.
Keep the people miserable to keep them in line basically. Dangle promises above their heads so they always have false hope.
“Oh common, bring cameron already” some british probably
While public transport is important and I would prefer more money be put into public transport in the UK. I’m not going lie that the money being put into making roads safer to drive upon is a much better use of tax payers money then putting it into the endless money pit that is the high-speed two rail project the project has been in limbo for a number of years
It’s in limbo because money keeps getting taken from it.
