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Why do people hate cyclists?
One of the reasons, of course, is because cyclists are deemed to be “free-riders”, and don’t pay their fair-share for use of the road. This erroneous belief is easily batted out of the park but it’s...
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Law firm drums up biz with entitlement syndrome car tax disc holders
Vantage Law, a “young, eager, professional and enthusiastic” firm of personal injury solicitors in Liverpool, is promoting itself on the company Facebook page by promising tax disc holders for those...
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“I knocked a cyclist off his bike. I have right of way, he doesn’t even pay...
You have to be a special kind of dumb to post that kind of comment to Twitter, but, sadly, the UK driving test doesn’t examine emotional intelligence and this young woman is speeding around Norfolk...
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Survey claims that motorists want cyclists to wear helmets and pay to use roads
A survey from research agency Consumer Intelligence claims that motorists want cyclists to pay ‘road tax’. By not realising how roads are paid for the company is failing to live up to the second part...
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Comedy gold: “The car have priority over you because we pay road tax”
Motorists say the stupidest things. Well, some of them do, and so do their passengers. Who could ever forget the Mancunian ‘no pay, no say’ conversation? But for sheer comedy gold it would be hard to...
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Gastropub owner says he’ll ram cyclists at 60mph as they don’t pay for roads
The Bathurst Arms is an ivy-clad pub hotel in the sleepy Cotswolds. The restaurant is to die for. If you make it that far, that is. If you’re a cyclist the landlord of the The Bathurst Arms wants to...
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A numbers doctor writes…and, politely, gets it wrong on car tax being a “fee...
Roger Harrabin of the BBC wrote an excellent piece on the non-existence of ‘road tax’ (it was also a news segment on Radio 4′s Today programme). Naturally, this was a lightning rod for those who feel...
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“Cyclists don’t pay for roads!” 1890-style
Thanks to some research I did for iPayRoadTax.com on the history of the long-gone Road Fund I discovered the cycling back-story of a number of key officials in the world of early motoring. This led to...
View ArticleGov.uk is now a little bit more accurate
Chapeau to those piloting Gov.uk: they fixed a couple of little niggles after being told about them. Under ‘driving and transport’, there was a stray inclusion of ‘road tax’ (in brackets, but, still,...
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Mitsubishi defends use of “road tax” in new TV ad campaign
“Road tax is a thing of the past,” says Mitsubishi in its new TV ad, which first aired last night. Well, yes, that’s accurate. But the use of the phrase in the TV ad isn’t meant to mean “road tax” is...
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