The New Transit?

[Lancs Lad]

I'd go a step further tbh. There is ever reason local authorities should be able to mandate.... Infact the already can, take bus lanes/chyscolpaths.

If a place has air pollution problems mandating a preference towards EV cars and vans within an area should be seen as an option. I'd also argue you should be mandating sizes..... Your EV car of 5 seats needs to be under 2.3m wide and 4.5m long for example....... Throw in a permit scheme for occasional visitors and a financial assistance scheme for those who work in the area and need to swap a vehicle out.

I'd also say that the likes of Bristol and London should be mandating within the planning framework that sites with a value of X and a working duration of Y should install mains power at the start of the project and utilise tethered plant or EV for a majority of the project..... No need for a forklift to be diesel on a site under an acre..... And cranes already are mostly leccy.

However this is about air pollution.... Not climate change. And it's important to legislate to prevent areas such as where I am from economically slitting the throats of locals to satisfy the political and ideological desires of the blow ins.

But nationally we should not be forcing, mandating or prohibiting.... Infact many places we should be subsidising to upgrade resilience.

Just my opinion.

As ever a sensible post how can they not see the tethered option or indeed local power? All you get is these Muppets raving about battery vans driving round to charge them...in the meantime making big coin. It's all about money.

Resilience...massive topic that's blindly ignored ATM by the masses they just presume electric falls out the sky and will continue to do so.... Take the likes of me and thee with a few hundreds litres of derv in the shed we can go indefinitely...an NPO would absolutely wipe this country out now...no need for nukes. Just a few targeted bits of Semtex on the super grid and boom.
It's definitely talked and planned for behind closed doors and in hushed tones by folk who appreciate the impact it would have ...

 

[JD450A]

It's definitely talked and planned for behind closed doors and in hushed tones by folk who appreciate the impact it would have ...

Would not even need explosives tbh. I suspect I could irreplaceably cripple the country within a week with a Stihl saw, some chain and some postcrete. If any members of the intelligence services are reading this I'd be keen to help prevent it ever happening. You have my number .

EVs are all about money, same as with Drones.....

And that's without talking about the whole public transport situation......

 

[Lancs Lad]

Would not even need explosives tbh. I suspect I could irreplaceably cripple the country within a week with a Stihl saw, some chain and some postcrete. If any members of the intelligence services are reading this I'd be keen to help prevent it ever happening. You have my number .

EVs are all about money, same as with Drones.....

And that's without talking about the whole public transport situation......

Semtex expedites the process I'm told...

 

[Lancs Lad]

Would not even need explosives tbh. I suspect I could irreplaceably cripple the country within a week with a Stihl saw, some chain and some postcrete. If any members of the intelligence services are reading this I'd be keen to help prevent it ever happening. You have my number .

EVs are all about money, same as with Drones.....

And that's without talking about the whole public transport situation......

Ah yeah public transport. You could shut down network rail for weeks with a chainsaw....

 

[DaveDCB]

Water…. We all need water!

 

[V8Druid]

Ah, but the non compliant tanks are all being shelled into oblivion and replaced with EV drones

fixed that for you

 

[V8Druid]

Water…. We all need water!

would be fighting 'em off with a sh1ttty stick (or a 12 bore)
gallon a minute, 24/7/365 from our spring

 

[JD450A]

Semtex expedites the process I'm told...

Thing is though explosives are pretty easy to locate, track and identify..... Particularly in a time of war, few key sensors linked to ANPR.... The tech exists and works. Same with radiological threats.

Basic tools and items however aren't and are right out of the SOE playbook..... Most of German rail freight for panzers was killed with grinding compound and grease pre D Day.

Personally a few bags of postcrete dumped in drainage and sewage systems could cripple London. Not to mention what you could achieve with a length of chain lobbed into a substation.

I've not even started on the Gas grid, or the potable water network..... But the latter I'm reliably informed has already been repeatedly prodded by nefarious foreign bodies via hacking level sensors remotely. If they can do damage like that imagine going round with a valve key and banging the main off!

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Thing is though explosives are pretty easy to locate, track and identify..... Particularly in a time of war, few key sensors linked to ANPR.... The tech exists and works. Same with radiological threats.

Basic tools and items however aren't and are right out of the SOE playbook..... Most of German rail freight for panzers was killed with grinding compound and grease pre D Day.

Personally a few bags of postcrete dumped in drainage and sewage systems could cripple London. Not to mention what you could achieve with a length of chain lobbed into a substation.

I've not even started on the Gas grid, or the potable water network..... But the latter I'm reliably informed has already been repeatedly prodded by nefarious foreign bodies via hacking level sensors remotely. If they can do damage like that imagine going round with a valve key and banging the main off!

I have thought for 20 years that the water system is pretty vulnerable. Look at all the drama last year in Brixham? I could pretty easily dose the local 6" main with dye and a 1000l of pig slurry and shut down a large area. I know where the service valves are, and I have the key. And as @JD450A has already suggested, some strategic rapid set would wreak havoc.

 

[Lancs Lad]

Thing is though explosives are pretty easy to locate, track and identify..... Particularly in a time of war, few key sensors linked to ANPR.... The tech exists and works. Same with radiological threats.

Basic tools and items however aren't and are right out of the SOE playbook..... Most of German rail freight for panzers was killed with grinding compound and grease pre D Day.

Personally a few bags of postcrete dumped in drainage and sewage systems could cripple London. Not to mention what you could achieve with a length of chain lobbed into a substation.

I've not even started on the Gas grid, or the potable water network..... But the latter I'm reliably informed has already been repeatedly prodded by nefarious foreign bodies via hacking level sensors remotely. If they can do damage like that imagine going round with a valve key and banging the main off!

And...the fact that a lot of main valves etc are in pretty remote locations iykyk

 

[V8Druid]

And...the fact that a lot of main valves etc are in pretty remote locations iykyk

used to have 3 in the garden of my old house (ex WW pump house/valve keeper's cottage) with two 27" mains running through it and I know exactly where there are 5 more between Aber and the res.
got two off cuts of the pipes, from when they were installed in the 30s/40,s and a jointing ring, sat here.