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However it's you talk to anyone who's trying to get citizenship, they will tell you just how expensive it is, there's also tales (online, so I'm not entirely sure of the validity of them) of tourist visas from non western countries costing $350 with no certainty of getting a visa. Indeed, I...

Even that sort of number (1:11), is probably still about right, as (assuming an equal distribution of off street parking properties to non) there's about 2:7 charger connections to EV's without off street parking. The reality is likely to be that it's more likely to be those with off street...

Would I be right in assuming that these are straight tunnels with no junctions, if that's the case they would still be far simpler to operate than something with a junction on it. Even if you could find an exit portal location within a city, what then happens to those vehicles? Unless it...

Most (about 65%) of homes have off street parking, therefore there's the potential for a lot of cars to not need to use a public charging point for 95% (or more) of their miles. Add to that, the fact that petrol cars are still very much in the majority of fuel type vehicles on the UK roads and...

New car registration data is out and it confirms a 3.1% fall for the second largest fall in fuel types (obviously diesel is continuing its fall off the cliff with a further 25% fall, with the number of new diesel cars being below 9,000) and a 10.7% increase for the smallest increase in fuel...

Personally the story of Labour taking to Trump sounds very like something which is always done but because of who it is the story is made bigger than normal by certain groups as a way of making Labour look bad to those who are likely to think that Trump is bad news and may not wish to support a...

On the second point see the fairly low voter numbers for the Lib Dems and Greens in the London Mayoral vote (both at 145,000 vs the 812,000 for the conservative candidate and the winning 1,088,000 for Labour). Which reminds me, a certain candidate in the London Mayoral election saying "I've...

Relatively few people will opt for a coach as they take a lot longer and are generally less comfortable than a train. That's not to say that there shouldn't be more bus/coach travel (far from it), just that there should be more rail travel too. Rail does a reasonable job, yes it can't replace...

I don't know, but I could get close to 30 (i.e. fast enough that cars rarely could overtake me) on a near flat (sight downhill, about 2m drop over half a mile) when riding a mountain bike. However, that's only mostly as I was only going a short distance and there were limited junctions or...

If a (say) 100kg cyclist and their bike hits someone then that's going to hurt a whole lot less than 1,000+kg Vauxhall Corsa and it's driver. A cycle is only about 800mm wide, whilst even a smart car is about double that, meaning that it's easier for a cyclist to avoid a pedestrian. 1714935131...

Quite, a 3 lane motorway has a theoretical capacity of 5,400 vehicles each way, if we assume 1.2 people per vehicle (which is typical for a lot of travel, whilst it can be as high as 1.4 there'll be a fair amount of goods vehicles, so it balances out) that's 6,500 people. HS2 (400m) trains...

Could be, however given the wide ranging scorn the cancellation caused you'd have to be brave* to try and impact this on the run up to an election. *Feel free to change to a word/phrase of you're choice.

Why not just run 4+ tph between "London" and Birmingham, even if the current passenger numbers don't justify it? You could even make it as frequent as possible and then run all the other (further north) services from Birmingham. With a high enough frequency, you could justify the lack of...

Part of the problem, and why there's so much talk of vague terms, is that with a long programme timeline if the discussion was about improving service x only to find a few years down the line that actually it was better to improve service y instead by the time HS was delivered. There are (semi)...

It wasn't a point in defence/attack of any political parties, rather something which a business could do.

One potential outcome is some company bringing in a 10 hour a year contract (so not zero hours), however so had the same net outcome that the person has no assurance as to what work they have. However, you could even make things worse by the company saying that you've got to have their...

There's other factors which come into play (see below). Quite, the population of England has increased by 7.4%, which erodes the increase. Add to that the 20% increase in those over 65 (who are now likely to need healthcare). Combined that's likely to have resulted in a much closer overall...

The reason that someone in Wales can do things relating to the UK government is because they can vote for the UK government. If Dull on Sea decide to give free parking permits to its recipients but charge visitors £15 a day to park anywhere other than private land, should the residents of...

Unfortunately very little. Just to be clear, that's very little of the Bible - and mostly those bits which can be used (as they were written in a culture more closely aligned with that is the Taliban than the west) at face value rather than understanding the culture they were written in...

This is why some councils have minimum lengths for speed limits, so there isn't this constant changing on speed limits. This does mean that sometimes (say) a 40 limit extends or into the countryside perhaps a bit more than perhaps it "should", but that's not too much of an issue in the great...