Cannot DealWith ...’


roof (achieving the intention of the policy, incidentally). We offer tax breaks forworkers given cars by their company,


but we tax themif they are given help with public transport fares The new trains and buses are delayed or abandoned because


of the credit crunch. Public transport funds are cut back. I got a bus pass when I


was 60 that allowedme free travel on any public bus.The govern- ment has now“clarified” the scheme to exclude awhole range of buses I might want to use in busy places at busy times, putting me back intomy car. Cycle lanes are installed only where it is easy, so there is no


coherent network. “She who must be obeyed” tried to cycle four miles to work once. She had to get off the bike 10 times to cross other traffic. She got back in the car. Note to traffic engineers, if you want to make cycle routes work, make the other traffic give way to the bikes, not the other way round (go visit the Nether- lands if you want to see how). We cannot build a single piece of transport infrastructure, be


it road, railway, dock or airport,without a 15-year debate thatwill include civil unrest and 80-year-old ladies being arrested as potential terrorists for trying to preserve 11th-century churches where 20 generations of their family are buried.


Allegedly, six million people are


directly or indirectly employed by the auto- motive industry, so we introduce a $3,000 incentive to buy new cars. The bad news is that virtually all these cars aremade abroad, sowe are using themoney that could have paid for the newbuses to subsidize industry in Europe, Japan and Korea. But ... we are a small Island, and we cannot deal with every- body and everythingmoving by road ...


It’s the Law, Let’s Ignore It The biggest municipal parking operator in the UK isWest-


minster.Thewhole borough is covered by parking controls, divid- ed into zones.The lawsays that the boroughmust post every entry point to a zone with a sign saying what the operating hours are. The city centre is Zone F, and the boundary signs are incomplete; without these signs, the “No Parking” areas are unenforceable. Westminster writes tickets on these areas, and a driver


appealed the validity of the penalty.The adjudicators say the rules are clear, the scheme is invalid and the ticket (and potentially all the others issued since 1994) is void.


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