If you want to pay more tax..

[warthog]

If you ask me, surely a simple FREE solution would be to try and stagger people's start/end time for their working day and also to encourage more people to work from home and things like that? Personally I could work from home at least 3-4 days a week and save myself at least two hours a day sitting in traffic jams on the various motorways of the northwest.

But then again, a FREE solution doesn't generate yet another stealth tax does it Mr Blair?

In what way is that the responsibility of the government? These things could be done easily if employers were more enlightened.

[CrazyHorse]

In what way is that the responsibility of the government?

Because the government is currently looking at ways to reduce congestion.

[superjohnmcginlay]

I do work from home - have done now for two years. It's the way forward, believe me.

Not very practical for all industries though. It would have been a bit difficult building the reservoir we've just finished in Bridlington if we'd all stayed at home!

[Zulus Thousand of em]

I do work from home - have done now for two years. It's the way forward, believe me.

Not very practical for all industries though. It would have been a bit difficult building the reservoir we've just finished in Bridlington if we'd all stayed at home!

Good point. Well made.

[hisroyalgingerness]

I could piss easy work from home but am in one of the few depts not allowed

still, the other day when i had an 11am doctors appt it worked nicely in my favour, good lie in

[Bruce Rioja]

Not very practical for all industries though. It would have been a bit difficult building the reservoir we've just finished in Bridlington if we'd all stayed at home!

Out of curiosity, what happened to all the earth that you dug out?

[Gravedigger]

Travel to the south for an away game and on present projections it'll cost about £300 for the round trip "Congestion" charge. More frighteningly, last night a politician on "Question Time" said the charge would be in the region of a pound a mile, though this would be on motorways. He was talking specifically of the M8 in Scotland where it is to be trialled next year.
Assuming that to get south you have to pay £300 for the round trip, do you think the train companies will keep their advanced saver fares. No. They'll knock twenty or thirty quid off the £300 and call it a bargain. Just another way for the fat cats to make a bob or two. Course if Tony goes, as promised, this year, he'll be up to all sorts of mischief before departing.
The road tax disc will be demolished, some tax breaks on petrol duty but even ten away matches will cost the best part of £3000 per season. Companies, particularly in the distribution and food trades spread around the uk will have to pass on this charge to customers so the cost of everything will go up. Your doctor going on his annual holiday to Scotland will have to pay and pass on his cost to the already troubled NHS, as will the butcher, baker and candlestick wotsit. Milk lorries collecting milk from farms then delivering it nationwide will be charged and it'll be passed on to the consumer. Tourists, hire car companies, leisure motoring and caravanning will come to an end as it'll be too expensive. Then as financial gains slide, the treasury will increase income tax to horrendous levels, but at least all the roads will be empty of traffic. We're just going back into antedulvian times, fast!

[superjohnmcginlay]

Not very practical for all industries though. It would have been a bit difficult building the reservoir we've just finished in Bridlington if we'd all stayed at home!

Out of curiosity, what happened to all the earth that you dug out?

We didnt dig anything out, we demolished an existing disused reservoir and built the new one in it. All demolished material was used as backfill. Excavated material for pipework was also used as backfill/landscape material.
Why?

[Zulus Thousand of em]

... and then there will be a General Election and sanity will prevail!

[Bruce Rioja]

We didnt dig anything out, we demolished an existing disused reservoir and built the new one in it. All demolished material was used as backfill. Excavated material for pipework was also used as backfill/landscape material.
Why?

Just wonderin', fella.

How do you demolish a resevoir? Aren't they a hole in the ground?

[superjohnmcginlay]

We didnt dig anything out, we demolished an existing disused reservoir and built the new one in it. All demolished material was used as backfill. Excavated material for pipework was also used as backfill/landscape material.
Why?

Just wonderin', fella.

How do you demolish a resevoir? Aren't they a hole in the ground?

Thats an impounding reservoir - simply there to collect ground and surface water.
Service reservoirs are fully covered concrete (usually) structures - you dont want someone pi$$ing in the water youre about to drink. Like this:

[CrazyHorse]

We didnt dig anything out, we demolished an existing disused reservoir and built the new one in it. All demolished material was used as backfill. Excavated material for pipework was also used as backfill/landscape material.
Why?

Just wonderin', fella.

How do you demolish a resevoir? Aren't they a hole in the ground?

Thats an impounding reservoir - simply there to collect ground and surface water.
Service reservoirs are fully covered concrete (usually) structures - you dont want someone pi$$ing in the water youre about to drink.

You do know that they treat the water to remove the piss and stuff before we drink it, don't you?

[Montreal Wanderer]

You do know that they treat the water to remove the piss and stuff before we drink it, don't you?

Usually, but not, I gather, in Little Lever.

[superjohnmcginlay]

We didnt dig anything out, we demolished an existing disused reservoir and built the new one in it. All demolished material was used as backfill. Excavated material for pipework was also used as backfill/landscape material.
Why?

Just wonderin', fella.

How do you demolish a resevoir? Aren't they a hole in the ground?

Thats an impounding reservoir - simply there to collect ground and surface water.
Service reservoirs are fully covered concrete (usually) structures - you dont want someone pi$$ing in the water youre about to drink.

You do know that they treat the water to remove the piss and stuff before we drink it, don't you?

I had no idea!!! That's what im saying to Bruce - service reservoirs are after treatment and are fully enclosed - not just a hole in the ground.

[InsaneApache]

I used to be in water treatment. The water is disinfected, usually with chlorine or nowadays ozone, then filtered by either rapid gravity filters or reverse osmosis. One of the reasons why I never go to the swimming pool is because I know what's in there.

Nice hijack BTW

[superjohnmcginlay]

I used to be in water treatment. The water is disinfected, usually with chlorine or nowadays ozone, then filtered by either rapid gravity filters or reverse osmosis. One of the reasons why I never go to the swimming pool is because I know what's in there.

Nice hijack BTW

Aye we build all them systems as well - coagulant, caustic, hypchlorite, etc.

I thought so.

[Zulus Thousand of em]

Are these two making this up? It sounds a bit like Stanley Unwin to me - and we'll never know!

[CrazyHorse]

You do know that they treat the water to remove the piss and stuff before we drink it, don't you?

Usually, but not, I gather, in Little Lever.

'tis true. Little Lever's water supply is downstream from Breightmet's sewer system. Mind, I think they filter it through an old pair of 20 denier stockings before we drink it.

[communistworkethic]

If you ask me, surely a simple FREE solution would be to try and stagger people's start/end time for their working day and also to encourage more people to work from home and things like that? Personally I could work from home at least 3-4 days a week and save myself at least two hours a day sitting in traffic jams on the various motorways of the northwest.

But then again, a FREE solution doesn't generate yet another stealth tax does it Mr Blair?

In what way is that the responsibility of the government? These things could be done easily if employers were more enlightened.

But there's no direct incentive to businesses to encourage it. You have to provide laptops, security (ask Nationwide) and phone connection but there's no tax incentive which makes it viable for smaller companies.