Goals & Policy Detail - Transport

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This is what you say:

We want the right options to meet our needs for safe, fast, reliable and clean travel at fair cost.

What's wrong with things as they are?

Transport policy is failing both drivers and public transport users
Traffic congestion is worsening, harming business and the environment
Motorists pay very high taxes but appear to get little investment in return
There is a feeling that motorists are being persecuted
Except in some limited areas, public transport is not good enough

UKpopdems will make sure that transport options meet Britain's needs, so we'll:

Stop persecuting drivers but enforce safe driving.
Review all speed limits so they are simple, common sense, modern and understandable. Strictly enforce them.
Ask the people to decide on increasing or removing static speed cameras and how fines are used.
Recognise the inherent safety and cleanliness of motorways and dual carriageways. Gradually expand the motorway network to get drivers away from more dangerous and polluting country and town roads
Find ways to relieve congestion in the short term
Incorporate road tax into petrol taxes and discontinue the tax disc to produce a fairer system based on efficient fuel usage. Keep overall taxes the same
Introduce a bar coded insurance disc that can be easily checked to reduce the number of uninsured vehicles
Support toughening international standards for cleaner, quieter and safer transport.
Invest in public transport and grow passenger numbers, especially on buses.
Begin to ring fence motoring taxes so that 50% is spent on roads, 15% on public transport, 15% on emergency services and 20% on environmental improvement.

What will this do for the British People?

You will be listened to on motoring issues and you'll know where your tax money is going
Roads will gradually become safer and better flowing
Motoring taxes will become fairer and tax and insurance evasion reduced
Speed limits will become simpler and more commonsense.
Public transport will become an easier option

Companion notes to the policy

Motor transport is essential for Britain, but vehicles are lethal weapons in the wrong hands. This needs reflecting in policy
The speed limit review will be fast and based on village, town and city boundaries and how well traffic is separated from pedestrians and each other.
Road tax incorporation into petrol taxes will allow motorists to control their own road costs through efficient driving. It also means that foreign vehicles pay their share and the elimination of tax fraud and collection costs.
Technology will allow insurance discs to be verified on-line by those authorised
In order to increase public transport usage, especially of buses, we want to drive down prices and drive up convenience. More and better marketed rural services connecting villages to towns, perhaps free at the point of use.
Ring fencing of taxes and votes on raising or reducing taxes will be an increasing trend of UKpopdem government.

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