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I figure these place SHOULD be covered under our road tax.
Who paid for the land to build these service stations in the first place? I would have thought it was us - the tax payer - and the road tax payer in particular.
It seems we - the public - stump up the cash to buy and build these things, then the Govt sell the facility off on the cheap to their cronies (who pay profits into off-shore tax havens) who then make huge profits leasing the space to people like Starbucks who don't pay any tax.
Hmmmm. I think I'm turning into a radical lefty
I don't think you are...this is just a fraction of the abuse that was/is going on with unchecked road and motorway building. I understand Dr Beeching et al cut British Rail to the bone and destroyed a very efficient rail/road freight & transport system. Including the Post Offices green and very efficient train to electric vehicle postal system in many cities/towns and rural areas that operated in the 50/60's.
Funny that at the sane time peoples options of using the state railways was being taken away & everything became about car ownership & road haulage,various government ministers & lords and party funders and their companies were becoming multi millionaires from government sponsored road building schemes ploughing through our green and pleasant & the subsequent explosion of road haulage. Apart from the staggering amount of Co2 released by roadbuilding many of these projects Included digging up a lot of peat bogs releasing millions more of tons of Co2 into the atmosphere BTW.
Just imagine if the rail network had been kept we could have had a proper integrated (green) freight on the rails system and reduced the massive burden, costs and pollution and construction projects and repairs from having a road based heavy goods vehicle network.:thumb:
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