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it 1980 currently, a rolling 40yr for vehicles going exempt. sadly not 1997, that would ahve been case in original 25yr rolling period.

my contention is yes, we would buy cars and keep parked most the time. we already do this, millions have a depreciating asset when cabs journeys would be cheaper on total cost of ownership. there would be a reduction of private vehicles for commuting (and public transport eradicated), just dont...

quite unlikely. i understand the case for that, fleets of self driving cars owned by large large corp and renting time. its efficient and may well happen. however we saw early car adoption was on affluence, leisure, moving to convenience. those reasons to own a vehicle will remain. it might...

before the car were was shanks pony and bicycles for the masses. cars have democratised travel and personal freedom, horses require considerable effort to care for and only practical for very small minority to own.

reckon would be rare to find a company that moved out of city/town centre for car parking. office space cost would be the major driver, transport links/access to clients second, available skills in area, then maybe car parking.

glad you did the sums, yes there is effective road use pricing already. hence a new direct road pricing will need to offset against fuel duty and VAT to be fair all round. evidently they dont respond to pricing - see above. lockdown was quiet because all workers, office, trade, delivery...

yep, it can be done already and will be done. there's no practical way to cover the revenue elsewhere (especially with other budget holes to fill). people will need to stop thinking of fuel duty as environmental tax and as general taxation (always was). its inevitable we'll have road pricing...