20 MPH SPEED LIMITS:
Is it time for an adult debate about Private Transport in this gone-to-hell country. Cars, they're advertised (and sold) as something that'll get you there smoothly and efficiently. More and more technology is going into these expensive mobile trinkets that will allow you to make safe progress. Cars are engineered to get your family from A to B in a safe and timely manner. On the flip-side, governments and corporations want to tax the hell out of your private ownership of a prized possession, the way they used to tax you on the size of the windows in your house. Now they want you driving all over the country at 20 mph. This is not on estate streets or cul-de-sacs or past schools at letting-off and picking-up times. Nope... 20 mph on all trunk roads in all towns... is it time for that adult debate about what WE THE DRIVERS WANT from our road system, external from the road-condition issue in this country?
