Old chod banned in Paris

[ypsilandra]

Interesting.... that scuppers all the classic car events/rallies that are held in the Place de Vendome then

[Mike D]

IF, and knowig the froggies its a big IF this does come to pass, how log before its adopted in many other Euro cities, we already have the rather amusingly named London LEZ.

how long before we have a Birmingham LEZ, Manchester LEZ, Liverpool LEZ and Preston LEZ ad slowly older cars are driven off the road in the name of "being green"?

 

Public transport is all well and good and I would use it a lot more if it was as cheap as running a car or bike, as clean as my car and as frequent as my car (if you know what I mean). But it isnt, we get one crowded over priced train an hour into the major town, no buses of any regularity serving the large out of town shopping supermarkets, no local shops offering the same range or price of produce that the out of town supermarkets do & so on. So the car is a nesessary evil, but I dont want to me up to my arse in debt to drive one.

 

This is why cities can fuck off. Living in the sticks is where it's at!

[SambaS]

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN!!!!

 

I was going to ride through Paris in a Samba with the warm wind in my hair

[Mr Lobster]

 

Shitloads of old French autoshite up for grabs soon, and not too far from England!

 

I want a 'trelle.

 

Doubt it very much. Theres hardly anything 'old' in Paris anyway. Most of the interesting old stuff lives out in Les Sticks. This only covers the area inside the peripherique which is a load smaller than Londons LEZbian zone. In all honesty I can't see it making that much difference.

 

Its more about a new French PM wanting to be seen to be doing something for the domestic motor manufacturers as much as any green sillyness.

[purplebargeken]

The froggies will never stand for it. They used to strike/complain/march at the drop of a baguette.

 

The poxy bastard LEZ was a nightmare and kicked the arse out of the market for decently priced diesel chod. Another downside of the LEZ was that it drove the pikeys and romanian/albanian steel stealers into a better class of van which made them harder to spot.

[gtd2000]

Crikey - I stopped driving into Edinburgh about 10 years ago - no LEZ there that I'm aware of.

 

They just made it difficult to park - so they can simply fuck right off in my books.

 

The way the modern world is moving, you won't really need to go into the city anyway, unless it's for a night out.

 

I buy most of my stuff online or shop locally where they have ample parking spaces...

[Spiny Norman]

Crikey - I stopped driving into Edinburgh about 10 years ago - no LEZ there that I'm aware of.

 

They just made it difficult to park - so they can simply fuck right off in my books.

 

The way the modern world is moving, you won't really need to go into the city anyway, unless it's for a night out.

 

I buy most of my stuff online or shop locally where they have ample parking spaces...

 

THIS.

 

If I take the car into central Glasgow once a year I'm doing well, and Glasgow's not too car-unfriendly compared to most cities.

I can see how most city centres end up as ghost towns. Short sighted and gullible councils who've bought into all the greenie shit actively shun cars and the people they bring in, so everybody goes to these hideous just-out-of-town shopping malls for everything nowadays, or just buys online, and then they wonder why all the shopkeepers who've been there since nineteen-canteen are shutting up shop....

[Cavcraft]

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[michael t]

Ridiculous idea this, bump aswell

[gtd2000]

Crikey - I stopped driving into Edinburgh about 10 years ago - no LEZ there that I'm aware of.

 

They just made it difficult to park - so they can simply fuck right off in my books.

 

The way the modern world is moving, you won't really need to go into the city anyway, unless it's for a night out.

 

I buy most of my stuff online or shop locally where they have ample parking spaces...

 

THIS.

 

If I take the car into central Glasgow once a year I'm doing well, and Glasgow's not too car-unfriendly compared to most cities.

I can see how most city centres end up as ghost towns. Short sighted and gullible councils who've bought into all the greenie shit actively shun cars and the people they bring in, so everybody goes to these hideous just-out-of-town shopping malls for everything nowadays, or just buys online, and then they wonder why all the shopkeepers who've been there since nineteen-canteen are shutting up shop....

 

Glasgow was much better set up than Edinburgh in my experience but I've only driven into town a handful of times.

 

I'm living/working just outside of San Francisco and it would cost me $20 just to go into town (not including fuel) with a car by the time I pay for the Bay Bridge toll and an hour or two of parking. Taking the train in (B.A.R.T) costs about the same.

 

At the end of the day, I can do everything (apart from sight seeing) outside of the city, so there's no real need to go in.

 

Then again if you want to smell the stench of urine and look at homeless people that are drug addicts or mentally ill, San Francisco is that kind of place....

[Rocket88]

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