It was only a matter of time before they came up with this and stepped it up a gear.
"Owning a car should be ‘outlawed’ to force people on to public transport, a senior Labour MP has suggested.
Motorists who want to drive should instead be forced to join communal ‘car clubs’ where the cars are shared by drivers and used only when needed.
Dr Alan Whitehead, a Labour MP for Southampton Test and a member of the Energy and Climate Change select committee, said the increase in car ownership would lead to ‘something approaching a national traffic jam before 2040’.
He claimed that radical action would be needed to avoid national gridlock.
In an article in the Guardian, Dr Whitehead wrote: ‘We need to consider doing something serious. What we need is a considerable expansion of public transport over the next period and a shift from car to bus, train, bike or even feet. The big problem is how to do it.’
He went on to suggest that ‘outlawing’ car ownership was better than banning car use altogether, preferring ‘regulation rather than prohibition’.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2754252/Labour-MP-Beat-gridlock-ban-owning-car-force-motorists-share-vehicles.html
Hopefully, UKIP will have something to say about this and will put a spanner in the works of their green plan.
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claig · 13/09/2014 01:11
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