Speed limiters proposed in Scotland
16/06/09 16:27 Filed in: Blog
Scotland’s Transport Minister has
launched a new ten-year road safety framework, which sets what are
claimed to be the ‘toughest’ targets in the UK for for reduction of
injuries and fatalities. Read More...
50 limit moves up agenda
21/04/09 08:48 Filed in: Blog
Increasing political chatter suggests
that we are moving closer and closer to a 50 mph blanket speed
limit on single carriageway roads. But is this really fired by any
evidence that it will actually improve road safety? Read More...
Talk of 50 mph limit avoids the issue
28/03/09 13:46 Filed in: Blog
UK Government ministers are said to be
considering a default 50 mph speed limit for all single-carriageway
roads. Read More...
Boosting the economy with a roads programme
The opening of the new motorway that
closes the Cumberland Gap in the UK motorway system, on the 50th
anniversary of the opening of the first motorway, is a cause for
celebration. But it also highlights the chronic under-investment in
Britain’s primary transport network.
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Swindon - the centre of enlightenment
24/10/08 09:21 Filed in: News
Swindon, in England, may not seem like
the place for the dawn of a new enlightenment. But, that is exactly
what it is.
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So fuel price increase is nothing to do with tax?
When the Prime Minister and the
Chancellor flew to Aberdeen to meet with the bosses of the UK oil
industry, Gordon Brown tried to deflect attention from high fuel
taxes as the cause for the current fuel price crisis. Instead, he
tried to focus attention on fuel supply as the real cause.
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I do not like being lied to
14/09/07 13:32 Filed in: Blog
I do not like being lied to. But
almost every day, governments, transport authorities and
environmentalists come out with statements that are quite simply
untrue. Read More...
Anti-car brigade are stuck in the past
When are our politicians going to waken
up to the fact that emissions from cars are something that simply
won't be a problem in ten to twenty years time. Given that most
"planning horizons" are ten years or more, our politicians are
accelerating global warming by spouting a lot of hot air over a
problem which will simply disappear.
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Budget blues
24/03/07 16:07 Filed in: News
So petrol and diesel are to go up, but
not until October. But they are to go up again in 2009. And the top
whack of road tax is to go up to £300 then £400, but the bottom
rate is going down by 35%... or is it?
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Tightening up on traffic law
There have been suggestions that the
Government will toughen up on traffic law, increasing the potential
penalties for various offences. Is this finally a recognition that
the focus on enforcing speed limits is entirely out of proportion
with its effect on road safety? (Only 5% of accidents in 2005 were
caused by exceeding the speed limit according to Government
figures.)
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Chancellor avoids temptation to hammer road users... for the moment
Putting 1.25p on a litre of fuel could
be seen as road users getting off lightly and, certainly, all the
green campaigners who have been baying for motorists to be squeezed
till their pips squeaked, have been clamouring to get on the media
to tell us so. Read More...
Where are all the extra cars to come from?
01/12/06 15:55 Filed in: Blog
In advance on the Eddington Review
which will propose a tax per mile for roads used, Professor David
Begg said that the alternative was to build five times as many
roads as are currently proposed. Where are all these extra cars,
suggested in this horror-story scenario, supposed to come
from?
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Government figures lead to questions over speed camera 'obsession'
12/10/06 15:47 Filed in: News
Government figures published by the
Department for Transport show that, in 2005, exceeding the speed
limit was the cause of only 5% of road accidents.
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