Facebook and tabloid newspapers may not seem to be usefully critical focal points for fresh debate over abuses of state powers to ‘enforce’ traffic management, but sometimes they are. A new and in my view nasty twist has just been added to the ongoing debate about whether the use of ‘safety’ camera or ‘speed trap’ [...]
I have been so swamped with work recently, mostly in connection with my role as Transport Policy Advisor to MAG, (Motorcycle Action Group) that time to add posts to TC.com has escaped me. There are however key issues, and in my view some seriously skewed thinking in plans for US transport policy development that run [...]
Lord Justice Jackson has granted leave for an appeal against a High Court ruling that Westminster City Council were entitled to use Traffic Act powers to pioneer a new bike parking tax – in preparation for selling it as a ‘service’ to any UK council in need of a new source of cash. And, although [...]
I have been watching events at close quarters as Westminster Council try to roll out a new parking tax for scooter and motorcycle riders. One way or another this saga could well become a turning point in the way that Traffic Act legislation is used in Britain as a cover for local authorities to tax [...]