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Labour MP: Beat gridlock with a ban on owning a car and force motorists to share vehicles (UK)
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 05:46 EST, 13 September 2014 | (MailOnline Reporter)

Posted on 09/13/2014 6:40:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Owning a car should be “outlawed” to force people on to public transport, a senior Labour MP has suggested.

Motorists who want to drive should instead be forced to join communal “car clubs” where the cars are shared by drivers and used only when needed.

Dr. Alan Whitehead, a Labour MP for Southampton Test and a member of the Energy and Climate Change select committee, said the increase in car ownership would lead to “something approaching a national traffic jam before 2040”.

He claimed that radical action would be needed to avoid national gridlock. …

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TOPICS: Local News; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: alanwhitehead; climatechangehoax; communist; globalwarminghoax; labour; liberalidiot; nannystate; publictransit; unitedkingdom
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To: Celtic Conservative

Yeah . . . the scenario of the titular politician being in the “big black car” with the lower classes presumably on foot is being replayed here.


21 posted on 09/13/2014 7:43:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Oh, yeah. /s

That ‘special relationship’ with England that was mentioned in a prior posting the other day?

Flush it.


22 posted on 09/13/2014 7:51:27 PM PDT by logi_cal869
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To: logi_cal869

I’m sure Obama would agree wholeheartedly.


23 posted on 09/13/2014 7:52:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Owning a car in America = freedom.

Freedom of movement, choice, residence, employment.

Liberals just hate that.

I did the public transport thing in college. For two weeks. I’ve been on a public bus exactly zero times since then. It was what they call a learning experience. I learned it was infinitely better to pay for one’s own car. If I want to feel like I’m riding the public bus, I’ll buy a urine or B.O. scented air freshener.


24 posted on 09/13/2014 7:58:58 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: LostInBayport

Actually, liberal politicians do everything to scale back “public” transportation at the same time as proposing measures to curtail “gridlock”.

Don’t forget that the interstate highway system was a public works project and not built by the private sector.


25 posted on 09/13/2014 8:01:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

This UK Labour Party moron should have an IQ test. Ban autos...yes... why not ban trains, airplanes and ships, too.


26 posted on 09/13/2014 8:03:52 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: ExCTCitizen

Labour really wrecked the UK after WWII. They should not exist as a party.


27 posted on 09/13/2014 8:07:08 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

There’s a potential pandemic that is being spread by, among other things, the seats of taxicabs. Yes, lets ban cars so everyone is forced to use buses and taxis!


28 posted on 09/13/2014 8:40:50 PM PDT by Ellendra ("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
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To: Olog-hai

“Liberty? Pfffttt!”


29 posted on 09/13/2014 8:41:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: LostInBayport
Owning a car and being able to carry a loaded gun within easy reach while driving it in America = freedom.

Fixed.

30 posted on 09/13/2014 10:12:32 PM PDT by Disambiguator (#cornedbeef)
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To: Olog-hai

Labour Party. They vacillate between social-democratic and full-blown socialist.
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Just like the Democrat Party in the US!

So this MP in ENG says there will be gridlock on the roads by 2040... Does he not realize that many car owners now driving will be dead and gone by then? What an idiot!


31 posted on 09/14/2014 12:16:40 AM PDT by octex
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To: Olog-hai

Not to worry. Peak oil will strike by then so there won’t be enough fuel for the little people to run their cars. And if that doesn’t work, just raise their taxes so they can’t afford cars.


32 posted on 09/14/2014 12:28:24 AM PDT by fluorescence
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What do I win?

A haircut just above the shoulders.

33 posted on 09/14/2014 12:30:57 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Olog-hai

Marxist idiots at it again and the UK will submit


34 posted on 09/14/2014 3:39:20 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Olog-hai
This would be the Labour Party's ultimate dream.
35 posted on 09/14/2014 2:26:22 PM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe traffic wouldn’t be so bad there if the trucks stayed out of the left lane.


36 posted on 09/14/2014 4:10:35 PM PDT by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

> Owning a car should be “outlawed” to force people on to public transport, a senior Labour MP has suggested.


37 posted on 09/15/2014 12:49:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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