Verdicts · Transport
What the UK thinks about transport
Settled referendums
13
since Jul 2026
Votes cast
2,612
all time, on transport
This week
1,554
votes · 3 referendums settled
Written opinions
87
all time, left by voters
This week's opinion highlightThe most respected opinion this week
“I used to believe this but the reality is British roads are now so cluttered and complicated with localised council setups it will be very hard ever to do.”
DavidSandilands, debating No on “Will full self-drive (FSD) cars replace all taxis in the UK?” · read the thread →
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Respects
Most respected on transport this week
- 1.BenL7 respects
- 2.HonestCompass657 respects
- 3.Elkay04056 respects
- 4.JohnnyBoy5 respects
- 5.DavidSandilands4 respects
Who answered this week
The 756 placed voters lean Centre Right overall.
Regions this week
Votes each week
1,554so far this week
All-time transport highlights
Biggest landslide
YES 90%
Should speed limits on ebikes and eScooters be strictly enforced?
90% of 116 votes went the same way.
Closest result
NO 52%
Should HS2 be completed despite the higher costs and longer timescale?
Decided by 4 points.
Most debated
YES 56%
Should HS2 be extended to Manchester?
20 written opinions.
This week
3 settled · 1,554 votes
Should councils be required to permanently repair potholes rather than patch them?
The verdict
“It’s false economy” was the floor’s sharpest line as voters backed permanent repair over endless patching by a commanding margin.
Will full self-drive (FSD) cars replace all taxis in the UK?
The verdict
“Eventually” was the Yes side’s refrain; the chamber answered No by two to one, with its sharpest voice warning that British roads are “cluttered and complicated”.
Should HS2 be extended to Manchester?
The verdict
“Stopping HS2 halfway is like building half a bridge”: the floor backed extending the line to Manchester, while treating the project’s record as anything but vindicated.
Every transport verdict
- YES 79%Should councils be required to permanently repair potholes rather than patch them?“It’s false economy” was the floor’s sharpest line as voters backed permanent repair over endless patching by a commanding margin.
- NO 70%Will full self-drive (FSD) cars replace all taxis in the UK?“Eventually” was the Yes side’s refrain; the chamber answered No by two to one, with its sharpest voice warning that British roads are “cluttered and complicated”.
- YES 56%Should HS2 be extended to Manchester?“Stopping HS2 halfway is like building half a bridge”: the floor backed extending the line to Manchester, while treating the project’s record as anything but vindicated.
- NO 52%Should HS2 be completed despite the higher costs and longer timescale?“No, reluctantly” captured the chamber’s mood: No narrowly won, with the best-rated case against HS2 arguing that the money was already sunk and the damage already done.
- YES 81%If the same pothole is fixed three years in a row, should the section 100 yards each way be fully resurfaced?Voters here took a dim view of the annual patch-and-pray cycle, backing full resurfacing after three repeat fixes by four to one, a verdict that treats council thrift as false economy rather than prudence.
- YES 90%Should speed limits on ebikes and eScooters be strictly enforced?Rarely does a road-safety question produce anything like consensus, but this one did — voters backing strict enforcement of e-bike and e-scooter speed limits by nine to one, with barely a dissenting age band in sight.
- YES 67%Is the £2 bus fare cap worth the £500M a year cost?Two in three voters here backed the cheaper fare, but the one age group most likely to actually be commuting to steady work rather than drawing a pension turned against it, the 55-64s alone souring on a subsidy everyone else broadly welcomed.
- YES 77%Should the Northumberland line railway expand to include Morpeth, Cramlington or even Edinburgh?Voters here backed expansion by a landslide, but the ambivalence in the No camp's own top-rated comment suggests this was less a fight over whether to grow the line than over which direction growth should take.
- NO 59%Should the UK introduce a mileage-based road tax for electric vehicles from April 2028?Voters here rejected a mileage tax on EVs from 2028, and the clearest resistance came from those who arguably have most riding on the switch to electric: 25-to-34-year-olds broke almost three to one against it.
- YES 72%Are cars practical for most journeys in the UK?Middle age settled this one: voters in their forties and fifties backed the practicality of the car almost unanimously, while the 25-34s alone split down the middle, leaving the chamber's verdict at 72% yes.
- YES 69%Should HS2 adopt Japan's Shinkansen specifications to reach 320 km/h?The generational pattern is almost too neat to be coincidence: enthusiasm for HS2 borrowing Japan's engineering falls in near-lockstep with age, from the young nearly unanimous to the oldest split down the middle, as voters backed the Shinkansen pivot two to one.
- YES 76%Should the UK build flexibility into all future long-term public transport contracts?Rarely does a Colombian bus contract produce consensus in Britain, but flexibility clauses did, carrying three in four voters across every age band while the sharpest divide ran between the sexes, not the generations.
- NO 84%Should the UK government spend £50m to develop flying taxis for London?A resounding No: just 16% backed spending £50m on London flying taxis, with the 25-34 bracket the only pocket of real enthusiasm.