It is actually included in the standard license, just the documentation for enabling it is quite easy to misunderstand (it mentions several times that it’s for business only, but what it means is needing to enable it is business only. It’s already enabled for standard users). Confused me too.
That somewhere would have bus lanes but then not even enforce them until now is mind boggling to me. What’s the point? They were presumably just used as free street parking zones in critical transport arteries until now
In my pokey British town we have ANPR enforced bus lanes that result in an instant fine for entering, and it not only makes using the bus (or taxi, or motorcycle, or bicycle if you’re brave enough to share with vehicles) a breeze, but it also keeps traffic low enough by encouraging public transport that on the rare occasion I do need to drive into town the traffic isn’t usually too bad.
You also lose £2k worth of tax free childcare instantly as soon as you earn £100k, a rare instance of it actually being possible to earn less money by getting a payrise
Have you seen the polls in the last two years? Or the that a majority of prominent Conservative MPs for the last ten years have already announced they won’t run next year to avoid their own little portillo moments?
They know they’re done and are holding on for either a miracle or something like this policy change to stick. Which isn’t impossible, but that there’s a good chance of him winning an election is what is wishful thinking. They’re done.
Some drivers hate them because they think buses are cheating by using them, and of course that one more lane would totally fix traffic once and for all
Presumably this policy is around adjusting them to not be bus lanes outside certain hours, which is actually the case for many of them at the moment, but most drivers ignore this because it would require them to be capable of reading a sign.
Luckily, these are just the last desperate acts of an unelected Prime Minister, who only got the job because the last one crashed the economy inside a month (who only got the job because the last one was Boris Johnson). He knows that the party will be condemned to irrelevance next year and is anxious to find anything that could possibly resonate with enough voters
Ironically Rishi Sunak famously doesn’t really drive, and once had to borrow someone else’s car for a publicity stunt where he inadvertently demonstrated that he doesn’t even know how to fill one up with petrol. Sadly he doesn’t drive because hes a gazillionaire, not because he uses public transport
Whereas Argentina, a nation which only exists due to a colonial empire taking adverse possession of (already populated, unlike the Falklands) land, and whose entire claim boils down to “it’s kinda near me and I want it, someone who never administered it promised it to me” is definitely morally right and justifies the forced expulsion of the only permanent population an island has ever had.