UK Roads Reviews

I like to get out in my car for a drive round when I have some spare time. I pay road tax and a very large amount of tax on the petrol that I buy and also parts and labour for servicing are taxed as well as a giant new car tax when the car is first sold so having a car costs a very lot in tax. The least to expect is that some of that tax money ...

...By 'them' I mean everyone responsible for the current appalling state of the roads throughout this country, and particularly in London, where I live, where it's currently taking me two and a half hours to get into work when it should take one and a quarter. My journey to work consists of a two mile bus jouney followed by a ...

A couple of motoring stories in the press caught my attention last week.... The first was the latest proposal to solve congestion. It basically involves fitting electronic tags to all cars. These would transmit to roadside terminals on most A-roads and motorways so that usage of these roads during peak hours could be monitored, the ...

Roads. What a nightmare! Congestion, pollution, accidents, the list is endless. But maybe a solution is at hand. Perusing through my favourite sites this morning, as I do normally every day, I found a rather interesting article with regards to some new plans the Government has in store for the good old general public. ...

One Saturday, while particularly bored, I decided to walk along the road to where the Council were at last repairing a large hole in the main road, which had thriven healthily on the pounding it received from heavy traffic for many months. At the spot in question, I found that the idea had not occurred to me alone - there were eight or ...

Oh look! Right up my street, so to speak. Can't believe my luck really because it's a subject very close to my heart and I'd never seen it before. Whoopee! I'm going to have fun. Probably at your expense because I'm cruel and heartless, not to mention impossibly arrogant. If you didn't know already, my moniker here ...

Vehicle Excise Duty – otherwise know as the Road Tax How many of you out there are pissed off with the new Car Tax system. Right I brought my car in February 15 2000 and it was a (Rover 25 1.4 is). Now the reason why I brought the car is because it was my 25th birthday and I felt that 25 year where going to be lucky for me. ...

The reason I am writing this opinion is two fold. The first reason is to protest against the road tax and the second is to voice my reasons against the proposed tolls on British roads. My main gripe is the road tax, I cannot see any reason why we are paying this, other than to line the pockets of the government for the use of our ...

I travel daily over a road that has 412 patches in it. It wouldnt be so bad of course if the road patches were laid in a proper fashion by professional people. The point is that anyone can dig up a road now and worse still, anyone can fill it up again. I live in Portsmouth. I travel 22 miles of which it is 4 from my house to the ...

There is no question that our roads are overcrowded and in some places dangerous and in desperate need of repair but we must remember that the road network was introduced when car ownership and usage was a lot lower than it is now. With motorists paying £25 billion a year in tax we could expect to see improvements in either our road networks and ...

The M2 should be a nice road to travel on. Its flat, the traffic is not too bad and the view on the sides is okay too. However it is a miserable road to travel on. This is due to some really badly planned roadworkd and the dreaded speed cameras associated with them. I have travelled regularly along this road for the past 6 months and just as I ...

I hate them. I despise them. I want them all to go away. I want to be able to sleep at night without dreaming about them. OK that's going over the top I realise but I'm sure I'm not the only one. In certain areas OK they kill people speed instead of them killing people. But what about roads which have never seen anyone ...

The state of the roads in the UK is NAF, appalling, disgraceful, the explicitives are endless; (and I'm not talking about my hairstyle!) Seriously, I have been driving for over 18 years – although not very well according to my partner. I have lived all over the UK but for the last 10 years of so have resided in or around ...

Have you ever tried driving, in the dark and in the rain, in the US, Germany, France? Its real scary! YOu just cannot seen the lane that you are in - on a three lane motorway with trucks kicking up spray, this is quite horrendous. Driving in the rain and dark is not something I'd willingly do if I didn't have to, but in the UK ...

Ken Livingstone's new proposals will result in only the fat cats being able to use Central London roads. Think about it. No matter how high the charges are, the highly priviledged will get the charges for their company paid for by their companies. The companies will then claim it back from the taxman. It's no skin off their ...

I have been driving for over 15 years and have lived in or around London most of my adult life. The majority of my driving has been confined to London with the odd foray by motorway to Bristol, the West Country, Scotland, Wales, Liverpool and the South coast. My opinions on this subject reflect my experiences and may concur with other parts of ...

Dick Turpin used to do it and got hanged for his trouble and now the Government does it with impunity. Some people will argue that Dick Turpin didn't actually charge Road Tax as such, well that's true but he did rob travellers. I don't see a great deal of difference between him and the Government except that the Government doesn't ...

They are great you know roads and that. Brilliant. They might of course be better if their werent so many bloody idiots on them but you can't have everything can you. I think roads are one of the greatest inventions ever it saves us from buying fuel guzzling 4 by 4's. We still buy them but for some other reason (please ...

I don't know about the rest of the country but I live in Derbyshire in the East Midlands. We seem to pay high tax's compared to other areas and yet we also seem to get a very poor service back. My main complaint is how much money is waisted on "road calming" schemes involving coloured tarmac and white lines and ...

Got firm suspension? got a low slung sports car? - then avoid the highways and byways of South Lanarkshire at all cost. I don't know what the local authority spends it's money on - but it certainly isn't roads. Especially bad are the unclassified side roads where you will be lucky to find a half mile without a major area of ...