To motorists it is just a place where you can get gas, provided you can make it with what's left in the tank.
While this tax abatement may not create huge savings for us motorists, it will provide some relief, and at this stage any relief is better than none.
For motorists, it would become impossible to go from one section to the other: cars had to take the ring-road around the inner city, whereas cyclists could move freely about on new cycle paths constructed to accommodate them.
In 2001, Yves Contassot, then deputy mayor for the environment, said of motorists: "It is only by making them live in hell that we'll get drivers to renounce their cars".
Motorists, it was reliably reported, were pulled out of their cars at fake police checkpoints; along with passers-by with Sunni given names or tribal names, they were led into alleys and shot.Such large death tolls in single episodes, especially in the wake of suicide bombings, have become distressingly common in Iraq.
Last month, Mr. Williams, 51, led a fuel price protest at a nearby refinery that rapidly swept across Britain, emptying 90percentt of the country's gas stations, gaining overwhelming support from the very motorists it was inconveniencing and turning the British public against a government that had been enjoying broad approval.
He added: "Perhaps if the Scottish government took more of a lead in properly investing in our road network and supporting motorists, it would encourage more councils to do the same.
Put bluntly, it is the basic mechanism of car-leasing invented many years ago: rather than owning an automobile, the motorist leases it for a while, gaining access, Mr. Rifkin says, to what is increasingly depicted as "the driving experience".
The glare from the 37-storey building, officially known as 20 Fenchurch Street but which has now been nicknamed the "Walkie-Scorchie", was so strong that a motorist claimed it melted part of his Jaguar parked on the street below.
