Wednesday, March9,2011
Regrets, we’ve had quite afew...
UP TO £11bn could be misspent on the new‘11’ registration plate due out this week, as astudy shows around one in three buyers choose the ‘wrong’ car. The survey by
CarBuyer.co.uk polled 1,000 car
owners to find out if they were happywith their purchase decision. Aworrying 304 admitted regretting their specific choice of car. Participants were then asked howthey would
have bought differentlyifthey could turn back
time.Their responses were: ● The same car with adifferent engine –29
per cent ● The same car with adifferent specification
–19per cent ● Atotallydifferent car from adifferent man-
ufacturer –18per cent ● Asimilar car from adifferent manufacturer
–15per cent lThe same car in adifferent colour –11per
cent ● Adifferent car from the same manufacturer
–6per cent ● The same car in adifferent bodystyle (eg
estate not saloon) –2per cent MatWatson from
CarBuyer.co.uk said: “On
average our respondents spent just over £20,000 on their newcar and so it’s worrying so many believe they didn’t make the right choice.” However,it’s not surprising so manypeople
slip up as there are 4,427 separate model deriva- tives on sale in the UK, when taking into account all the different bodystyles,engine choices and specification levels available.
Spoiled for choice –soit’snot surprising so many car buyers end up thinking they should have got ‘the other one’
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Too many lights make for hard work
WITH manydrivers believ- ing thattrafficlights have become part of the conges- tion problem, the reason for those hold-ups has been revealed. The number of sets of traf-
ficlights has risen sharply in recent years,areport for the RAC Foundation has said. Numbers jumped by around 30 per cent between 2000 and 2008. Produced
by former
Whitehall transport and planning chief Irving Yass, the report also showed the number of trafficsignals equipped to give priority to buses went up from 3,801 at the beginning of 2007 to 8,425 at the end of 2008. The number of junctions in London with afull pedestri- an crossing stage –when all the lights forvehicle are at red –increased from 481 in 2000 to 783 in 2010. The report said thatthere should be areviewofsuch junctions. The report also said: ● The Department for Transport (DfT) should con- sider carrying out trials of flashing amber lights at times when there is little traffic, whichwould allow drivers to proceed with cau- tion at junctions; ● Authorities should con- sider standardising the green man at six seconds
rather than the usual 10 sec- onds; ● There should be wider
use of the “countdown” sys- tem whichshows pedestri- ans just howlong they have to cross the road; ● The DfT should allowfor trialling of cyclists turning left at ared signal if safe to do so; ● Local authorities should
see if they can remove traf- ficlights or replace them with alternatives suchas mini-roundabouts. RAC director Professor Stephen Glaister
“Trafficlights can ease your journey or be asource of frustration. “It is plain thatlights have
an important role to playbut with ever more-congested streets they need to be very finelytuned to ensure they are not doing more harm than good.” Aspokesman forthe RAC
Foundation said there were nowmore than 25,000 sets of trafficlights in the UK. He said the exact figure wasnot known because not every council had provided figures forinclusion in the report.
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