Please sign we may just get A pothole fixed

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    MCN Save Our Roads Campaign
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Sign now to help save our roads from ruin
 
The road network is Britain’s most valuable asset (Action For Roads report, DfT), yet we currently spend less that 1% of the asset value maintaining it. Britain’s roads are in a woeful condition, and they will get worse every year unless we act. Every year that the Government waits before acting adds yet more cost to fixing the problem. And meanwhile, we, as motorcyclists, are among the most likely to get hurt by hitting potholes. Here is what we believe should happen: 2p from the 57.95p that Government takes from every litre of fuel should go to preventative road maintenance. This guaranteed income of around £1billion would allow highways authorities to plan maintenance properly.The Government’s Code of Practice for road maintenance should be rewritten for 21st century traffic conditions and budget constraints. All road authorities should have a competent Asset Management Plan, forcing them to think long term about road maintenance. By signing the MCN Save Our Roads Petition you will send out a message to the Government that it can no longer ignore the danger to motorcyclists caused by potholes and deteriorating road surfaces. So please sign and ask your friends to sign too. Our roads: the facts - £976 million is the amount currently allocated per year to highway maintenance yet £12 billion is required to bring Britain’s roads up to a standard where no immediate repair is necessary - The Government raises £33 billion through tax on petrol each year yet allocates none of this revenue to road maintenance - 18% of Britain’s roads are classed as being in poor condition - 70% of people are dissatisfied with the state of UK roads
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FFS Im sick of this crap with cut and paste can this be fixed asap. I know its a site issue as loads of members are having the same problem.

                                                                                                                                                                             
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will have to swomp Mr Matt with complaints to fill his in box
mayby something will be done if hes getting nothing but complaints in his in box                                                                                                                                                                             
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can the organisers of tour de france sort next years route down all the roads with potholes in asap
then they will be fixt without deley and never mind the cost
ready for us bikers                                                                                                                                                                             
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Keep signing folks                                                                                                                                                                               
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MCN Save Our Roads Campaign
The Petition

Sign now to help save our roads from ruin
 
The road network is Britain’s most valuable asset (Action For Roads report, DfT), yet we currently spend less that 1% of the asset value maintaining it. Britain’s roads are in a woeful condition, and they will get worse every year unless we act. Every year that the Government waits before acting adds yet more cost to fixing the problem. And meanwhile, we, as motorcyclists, are among the most likely to get hurt by hitting potholes.

Here is what we believe should happen:
2p from the 57.95p that Government takes from every litre of fuel should go to preventative road maintenance. This guaranteed income of around £1billion would allow highways authorities to plan maintenance properly.The Government’s Code of Practice for road maintenance should be rewritten for 21st century traffic conditions and budget constraints. All road authorities should have a competent Asset Management Plan, forcing them to think long term about road maintenance.
By signing the MCN Save Our Roads Petition you will send out a message to the Government that it can no longer ignore the danger to motorcyclists caused by potholes and deteriorating road surfaces. So please sign and ask your friends to sign too.

Our roads: the facts

- £976 million is the amount currently allocated per year to highway maintenance yet £12 billion is required to bring Britain’s roads up to a standard where no immediate repair is necessary

- The Government raises £33 billion through tax on petrol each year yet allocates none of this revenue to road maintenance

- 18% of Britain’s roads are classed as being in poor condition

- 70% of people are dissatisfied with the state of UK roads


 

 
 
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Signing a petition is good for MCN's circulation but sod all else. There needs to be a business case mentality to suggest how this can be done. There just ain't that kinda money floating about. If we take 2p of fuel duty to repair roads then that needs to go back into the coffers from elsewhere or you cut spending elsewhere.

Pragmatical speaking what we need is for central gov to stick 2p on a litre of fuel and use that money to carry out the repairs. This is VERY easy to do.

That's about 40p per tank fill extra... i.e sod all.

It would create plenty of work for the roads guys, create jobs and trickle down into the local economies.

There would be some whinging about closed roads while the work took place but that's the omelette and eggs thing.

That all sounds terribly socialist I know, but there you go.

But if you would rather have that 40p in your pocket you can, but do stop complaining.
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Steve if they stopped wasting the money in the 1st place we would have paid for the roads to be done hospitals built new prisons money for the pentioners loads of police on the streets doing the job there payed to do not sitting behind a desk filling in stupid forms so the scum can go round robbing bikes and old folk.  rant over  
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Funny, funny.
Where exactly is that kind of money getting wasted?                                                                                                                                                                             
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MPs pay rise there penstion rise there expensises there 2nd home allowance not to mention there grossly over payed . If you got the real figers how much they waste in bullshit and cost to the tax payer because of there incompitance. Dont you remember the on a year or so back the MOD were being charged £65.00 for a light bulb ???
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Here's a quote from AA president Edmund King (MCN, 12/11/2014, page 2); "The AA is fully behind the MCN ["Save Our Roads"] campaign. Our patrols on two wheels often report to us the treacherous state of roads, which we take up with local highway authorities."                                                                                                                                                                                 
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Wait a minute, isnt that why the road tax was introduced in the first place? It's ok you saying put 2p on a litre of petrol Steve, but dont you think the government get enough tax from that? It costs just under 90 quid a year to tax a bike, vastly improportionate when it costs less to tax a small car that has twice as many wheels and weighs more than that of a bike of around a 1000cc. I wont go into other aspects of road tax with regard to foriegn trucks blah blah, but the road tax was introduced for the maintainace of the roads, as in my opening statement. Decades of under investment in our infrastructure has resulted in the mess we have today, but where has the money we have been paying for all years gone to?
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2013, 34 billion litres of fuel sold in the UK.
I'll let you do the maths but a few MP pay rises and 2nd house allowances don't count for much against that. We're talking big numbers here, if you want to fix the roads it's hands in pocket time.


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