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Change is slow but possible

Leave a Comment Posted by on June 2, 2011

Today we take our car in for a service, thinking about that I have realised that we have managed to make some positive changes during the last year. We have moved from two cars to one We have cut our annual mileage by over 50%. That is despite about 1/3rd of this years miles being [...]

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On driving as a driver

2 Comments Posted by on March 12, 2011

In the last couple of days we have been out in the car twice. Once taking a son’s girlfriend home and the other to collect a son from Oxford. As I now ride more miles than we use the car for I have become more aware of just how bad the driving is on our [...]

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Catastrophic loss of brains at the RAC

6 Comments Posted by on February 6, 2011

The RAC is complaining about the cost of  driving (see Cost of motoring soars by 6.3% as drivers feel the pinch – Press Releases – RAC). I do the same. I think it is disgraceful that drivers do not pay a fair price. However, one problem for the RAC is that a fair price would [...]

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Pickles and Hammond to end the war on motorists

Leave a Comment Posted by on January 3, 2011

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 For years politicians peddled the pessimistic, outdated attitude that they could only cut carbon emissions by forcing people out of their cars. via Pickles and Hammond to end the war on motorists – Newsroom – Department for Communities and [...]

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Drivers if there is no queue behind you, slow down as you are going too fast

1 Comment Posted by on December 1, 2010

My slogan for the week: Drivers if there is no queue behind you, slow down as you are going too fast Temperatures are below zero. Snow is falling. Residential roads have not been gritted and many still have snow right across them. Yet drivers are still breaking the speed limit. Duh!!!! Why do we see [...]

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Today I am going to drive

1 Comment Posted by on December 1, 2010

I don’t like it. I don’t want to but I am about to drive to a meeting. It has snowed again, it is snowing again but it is not the snow that means I am going to drive. It is not the distance that means I am going to drive. It is not the cold [...]

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We need less well insulated transport

1 Comment Posted by on December 1, 2010

At 10:30pm I was cycling home on sheet ice. It was no problem on a bike although walking would have been difficult. In some places the ice was under fresh frozen snow, in other places the snow had melted during the day and now the water had frozen. In other places the snow had been [...]

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