This coming Friday, I'll be doing something that I have done only a couple of times before in my life. I will be attending... a football match! A proper one, between teams who are paid actual money to punt a leather sack from one end of a freshly mown lawn to the other. And here's the twist - I'm going to be an away fan. Although I live in Cardiff, and will be going to watch the match in Cardiff, my dear girlfriend and her mother are diehard Preston fans, so I will be taking a seat at the Preston end. I think that means I can look forward to a certian amount of 'light-hearted' abuse, from both the Cardiff fans in the stadium and the Cardiff fans back at the office, once they get to hear about it! I'm looking forward to it though. It should be highly entertaining to see who wins.
Is road pricing a good idea? Yes, possibly. I'd like to see a lot more information before I could stick my neck out and say I'm for it, but right now it's very clear that the roads can't get any more congested. As long as a) petrol prices came down and b) car tax was either massively reduced or scrapped, then road tolls could work, if the government gets the pricing exactly right. If they devise a system which makes me ask 'Do I really need to use the car?' every time I went out, then that's got to be a positive thing. There will of course be winners and losers, but let's not end up with a road network where everyone's a loser because of total gridlock.
