Electric Cars and the A14
By LongBaker | Friday, September 17, 2010, 13:14
Interesting on the day that I was stuck on the A14 again because of an accident and the sheer volume of traffic trying to use the only major route in the area going east to west, the government announces plans to spend £24 million pounds to help develop electric vehicles.
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This is an electric car from Oslo, Norway. Would you drive one of these around Huntingdon.
Transport Secretary Phillip Hammond has pledged the new money to fund the
development of new engines, technology and infrastructure to enable more of us motorists to use electric vehicles.
Environmentally this might be great but it won't address the issue of more and more cars and lorries on the roads and more and more congestion.
What do you think?
Are electric cars the answer to our transport problems?
Will you be buying one of the new electric cars then?
Photo: shannonkringen
Comments
The biggest problem with the A14 is the sheer volume of lorries making their way in convoy from the eastern ports to the Midlands.
First we need to come up with a vignette scheme like the Europeans do, so that foreign lorries make a contribution to the wear and tear they cause.
Then we need proper investment in our east-to-west railways so that container traffic can come off our roads altogether - the containers can all be transferred to their lorries nearer their destination - saving fuel, reducing congestion, reducing accidents... and it would cost a small fraction of the "new A14".
By Julia_H at 13:50 on 17/09/10
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