I'm keen to learn what the other 20% are satisfactory about.
I've fallen down a traffic signage regulation rabbit hole... Best I could find on colourful crossings is this email response from the DfT at the end of this pdf.
I'd love to imagine that there is a local council standard detailing the set of RAL numbers for those paints. "It's not a Pride crossing unless it meets RDG-TRAF//COL//69/69a".
People seem so friendly here too! (for now at least!)
Maybe he thinks that more of his constituents are pro breathing decent air than pro driving smoggy private vehicles. I'd like to think he's onto something.
I'd love to know the additional cost of this compared to the current cost to councils of dealing with fly tipping.
It seems crazy to charge at the point of disposal.
Perhaps a controversy idea, but for awkward-to-dispose items, shouldn't the cost of disposal be included in the purchase price?
For example: Tyres are definitely going to be disposed of at the end of their life. Let's say it costs £3 to properly dispose of one. Add that £3 as a disposal tax. All that money goes into a central fund.
Then when a tyre rocks up at a tip, the tip will accept them happily because they know they can get the cost of disposal back from the central fund.
It would up the price of a tyre (or whatever item it is), but that cost was there at the start anyway. At the moment it's just subsided through council tax.
I'm sure there are holes in this somewhat simplistic idea, but still it seems fair that if you buy it, you buy it for life, including when it inevitably gets hossed.
Good to be here!
BTW, the duck logo is the duck from Sarah & Duck. It's a brilliant show, and I think can be found on iPlayer.
We've named this duck Martin. Poor chap has a bad wing so we give him double feeding of duck kib when we visit.
I thought New-brie... but then on the train in, the automated announcements enunciated hard and squeezed out the extra syllable.
How did it go? A good walk I hope!
Oh wow, over £100 lower! Thank you!