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Cressers
Cressers Posts: 1,329
edited August 2011 in The bottom bracket
Cycling is good for the UK. official.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14610857

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  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    Download the full report. It's fascinating reading.
  • bagpusscp
    bagpusscp Posts: 2,907
    Just a shame most are not made in the UK :cry:
    bagpuss
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Ha ha can you hear Eamonn Holmes sighing into his third Full English.
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  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    Ha ha can you hear Eamonn Holmes sighing into his third Full English.

    :lol::lol::lol:
  • Redhog14
    Redhog14 Posts: 1,377
    The most worrying part was:
    tax revenues from transport eclipse expenditure on transport by £14b, reflecting a net flow out of the sector from receipts.

    Yet again if you take more out than goes in, you end up with a deficit. We're all DOOMED I tell you, DOOMED :evil:
    @surroundedbh
  • lifeform
    lifeform Posts: 126
    I read that £14bn less was spent than was collected (i.e. it's going somewhere else other than transport)

    If so, that's been the case for a long while - very little of VED is actually spent on such fripperies at roads. That's why they stopped calling it Road Fund Licence.
  • Mr_Cellophane
    Mr_Cellophane Posts: 690
    No mention of how few bikes are made in Britain. :cry:
  • priory
    priory Posts: 743
    We shall soon know if I am wrong, but I have the impression that the 14billion deficit takes no account of the massive expenses transport imposes on other sectors, notably the NHS, environmental pollution and damage, coastguards and royal navy, customs and imigration, police etc etc..

    I think it is usually reckoned that a crash death costs a million pounds ( probably includes calculation of lost taxes and support requirements of dependants, police bill etc). That's 3bilion right there.

    Then there is the social services and benefits bills for the injured and distressed families.

    So far as I read it the calculation pointed to is missing some big things.
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  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    lifeform wrote:
    I read that £14bn less was spent than was collected (i.e. it's going somewhere else other than transport)

    If so, that's been the case for a long while - very little of VED is actually spent on such fripperies at roads. That's why they stopped calling it Road Fund Licence.

    +1

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