Electric vehicles bays in Westminster

 

Mr Mustard almost never drives into central London and still has a petrol car and will do so until he is too doddery to drive. He'll then have to be doddery on his bicycle or take the tube using his free (to him, Barnet Council have to pay for his journeys) Freedom Pass.

He thinks the only reason councils are helpful to EV charging operators, or provide facilities in lamp posts, is because there is supposedly money to be made. When he gets a chance he will try and find out the income which Barnet Council are garnering from the provision and what the costs are. It is a bad idea for councils to encourage car use in this way when they ought to be building tramways & better cycle lanes.

Electric cars weigh more than the petrol equivalent and so will cause more structural damage to roads which may only become apparent later as/if the market penetration of electric vehicles continues to grow.

Using his own car as an example, the electric version weighs approximately 45% more so wears out the road faster, emits more noxious tyre & brake particles into the air and is far more likely to result in death if it is driven into a human being.

That's all by the by, Mr Mustard was mostly interested to see how hard it would be for a non-resident to charge their car whilst visiting Westminster. Just over 1 in 7 bays in Westminster are available to visitors. Many people have misunderstood the signs, if it looks like the following you are meant to be charging an EV car and hold a resident permit.

 

Mr Mustard thinks there is a mis-match between the sign and the traffic order, for the sign above the City of Westminster cancelled the PCN as soon as an Appeal was started at the independent tribunal so if you have such a PCN Mr Mustard can help you. Once he has assessed the viability he will ask you to pay £40 to the North London Hospice and then he will take up the cudgels (non violently).

The end.