Should the government limit the number of cars on the road by restricting the amount of licences they issue?
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As I recall Singapore and Hong Kong have long had such policies, and certainly when one has limited space to put roads, parking, etc., that is one option for addressing the problem. However, one consequence of it is that a new car buyer is obliged to buy a license from someone who has an old clunker they are willing to take off the road, and the price of that license can be in the tens of thousands of dollars. It also tends to result in people buying very expensive high end cars, as it hardly seems worth one's while to spend tens of thousands on a license to put a Fiat on the road.
The practical result, as with so many government attempts to intrude itself upon the market ecomomy, is that poor and moderate income people are denied the privilege of driving as even if you use a lottery to assign licenses on an across the economic spectrum basis, the wealthy will find a means of buying the lesser-well-off people's license from them through phantom transactions. In effect, the result is another socialist transfer of wealth but the lower classes end up without cars.
no, i think we need better energy resources.
maybe they should be tougher with bans for bad drivers
Yeh right, and destroy the economy.
In the UK we do not have a sufficient public transport system to cope with the volume of people if you did this.
No !
This would be difficult to do, lots of people need cars for different reasons, how would it be possible to judge who was worthy and who was not? All they need to do is keep hiking the fuel prices up and then people would only make essential journeys.
Yes, I think so.
No one gets a licence until they have learnt to drive.
Make a change wouldn't it?
Bermuda already does. One car to a family.
Lots of motor bikes.
Waste of time. All that will happen will be an increase in the number of unlicensed cars on the roads. You don't expect the crooks to bother with such a trifling little item like THAT do you?
I think there would be a danger of all sorts of criminal practices going on in the competition for licences. I would prefer to see a much better, cheaper, and more attractive public transport system, backed up by measures such as London's congestion charge, so that many more people would choose not to use a car. Measures to make transporting freight by rail or water more attractive would also help, as would limiting the distance that goods travel e.g. supermarkets should buy local produce where possible, instead of transporting it miles across the country.
Why? what would you hope to accomplish? No. The government should do everything it can to develop alternative transportation that is cheaper than what we use now. How would get to work if you couldn't have a license?
Not such a good idea but something must be done.
British roads are choking up rapidly and for a tourist there is
certainly no pleasure anymore to drive through Britain.
Maybe there is no solution to the problem.
I've been toying around with the idea that if you eliminated all females from driving, and men were given the task of chauffeuring them, we might just see a major improvement.
Then again, the oil companies would lose out, since less gasoline would be wasted.
And the automobile companies would collapse entirely.
But everything else would be helped along, including traffic problems and pollution.
Since my idea won't fly, I can offer one suggestion:
Change the age limits to 21 min. and 81 max.
Younger drivers should be given a modified license with limitations.
Upon reaching 21 yrs. old, they should be requirred to go through a series of new testings.
Not a good idea as it may limit people finding jobs and i don't think the car makers or the oil companies would be happy it could also have a far reaching impact on our economy less cars being built = loss of jobs Less fuel being brought = loss of jobs also more people can't get jobs as they won't be able to drive to work = more people claiming benifits.And one other factor the goverment makes a fortune out of the motorist it wouldn't really want to lose that revunue
No it is a bad idea all round
It would work better to monitor registration of vehichles, not licences. My neighbor has at least 5 cars parked around the neighborhood!
Would you volunteer to gave up yours? And not own a vehicle ever?
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