Car tax disc to be axed after 93 years

Joe_Horner

Steve059 wrote: »

On the other hand ...

PS. From 1 November 2015, will it become an offence to display a tax disc?

No, that's the cunning part. They're abolishing the tax disk itself but not repealing S.33 of VERA 1994 :beer:

custardy

Joe_Horner wrote: »

I'm sorry, I didn't realise that you're the only cyclist in the country who pays insurance and fits winter tyres to your pushbike that cost "more than a full year's maintenance" on your car. Or (far more likely) you were talking about a motorbike even if you didn't specifically use the word.

I've also mentioned in an earlier post that I really don't have a problem with the motorist paying (more than) the full cost of the roads, but I do have problem with people claiming that they don't. But I guess that comment passed you by seeing as it doesn't fit your preconceptions.

Am I the only cyclist?
British cycling already includes insurance of varying levels in its membership. So theres over 75000 cyclists before you look at other clubs and private companies
Surely I pay more with both of my modes of transport?

Joe_Horner

Joe_Horner wrote: »

custardy wrote: »

How do you know?
[...]
I paid more for winter tyres for the bike than the car cost me all year in repairs/maintenance
[...]

I'm sorry, I didn't realise that you're the only cyclist in the country who pays insurance and fits winter tyres to your pushbike that cost "more than a full year's maintenance" on your car.[...]

custardy wrote: »

Am I the only cyclist?
British cycling already includes insurance of varying levels in its membership.

What about the tyres? That's the bit in bold and underlined in case you haven't been to Specsavers recently

Looking at prices online, it seems to me that either those are motorbike tyres or you don't spend anything like enough maintaining your car to keep it safe, let alone in decent condition

custardy

Joe_Horner wrote: »

What about the tyres? That's the bit in bold and underlined in case you haven't been to Specsavers recently

I went with Swalbe Spikes in 700c 25s this year
Thats over £160 for 2 bikes,excluding the spare spikes I ordered

custardy

Joe_Horner wrote: »

What about the tyres? That's the bit in bold and underlined in case you haven't been to Specsavers recently

Looking at prices online, it seems to me that either those are motorbike tyres or you don't spend anything like enough maintaining your car to keep it safe, let alone in decent condition

oh,a cheeky edit
how much does a car cost to maintain if you dont know the mileage?

Joe_Horner

So now it's "bikes" plural. Loving those shifting goal posts

custardy

Joe_Horner wrote: »

So now it's "bikes" plural. Loving those shifting goal posts

well take one bike,its still more than I spent

mttylad

A traffic warden etc could "at a glance" tell if a car was untaxed, a resident could tell "at a glance" if someone had dumped an untaxed car on their car park, an accident victimn could tell "at a glance" if the vehicle that crashed into them was taxed (if not = less likely to be insured too).

When this is implemented its going to be a tad harder to tell, it will take longer than just looking - you will need to go online/use an app (and there needs to be an android one - and it needs to be free).

Better make sure that you have saved all your old tax discs as in 50+ years time they are going to be rare collectors items

Nearly_Old

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

As ANPR is only fitted to kitted out vans and traffic cars how are the panda plods going to know? pull you to check? or are they going to spend the cash on the police to allow them to kit every car in the entire fleet across britain and the british isles?

Sorry but there is an organisation that probably has more ANPR cameras than anyone in the UK.


Ever seen a VMS (Variable Message Sign) on the motorway displaying a message like this:


"To J47 M81
Distance 6 miles
Time 5 Minutes"


Ever wondered where the information comes from? For years all motorway junctions have had ANPR cameras on both carriageways and all slip roads and every vehicle is recorded. The newer the motorway the more sophisticated the equipment. Not used for enforcement, etc but it would only take a few small changes to be used for road charging.

Aretnap

mttylad wrote: »

Better make sure that you have saved all your old tax discs as in 50+ years time they are going to be rare collectors items

There's already a market for out of date tax discs. It's a bit of a niche hobby though - one tax disc looks much the same as the next so I suspect it will never achieve the popularity of, say, stamp collecting. The current world record is £651.90 for a 1923 tax disc, so if you're hoping that the one in your windscreen will make you rich one day you should probably be prepared for a long wait.

OTOH I've got about four, one behind the other, in my tax disc holder right now (too lazy to take the old ones out), so I must be quids in!