What we should do is do away with the stupid thing altogether. It’s just ‘a’ tax and has no bearing whatsoever on cars, lorries, bikes or anything else that uses the roads.
if you want to tax vehicles fairly then stick (more) tax on fuel. That way people who use their vehicles more, pay more tax. It still needs to come with the highlights that it doesn’t pay for the roads but it means that the tax for joe bobbins who uses his car all the time, is more than the tax I pay because I help the environment/congestion/parking/life etc by using my bike while both my cars are sat at home doing nothing.
this approach will also encourage safer driving, more economical cars, visiting foreigners will pay more into our tax pots and dickheads on the roads will have far less of an argument.
That article also suggests that cyclists go around constantly cutting poor car drivers up and running red lights. What a load of tosh. No mention of all the car drivers who cut up cyclists (often injuring or killing them) nor of the hundreds of thousands of car drivers who jump red lights. One almost killed me this morning when he went through red that had been there for at least 5 seconds. but I still don’t think all car drivers jump red lights.