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by ratherbeintobago
24 Mar 2024, 2:12pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Dashcams in HGVs will help catch reckless drivers
Replies: 7
Views: 336

Re: Dashcams in HGVs will help catch reckless drivers

It’s a bit of a postcode lottery - some forces seem to be really supportive, others less so.

No portal in Scotland IIRC?
by ratherbeintobago
23 Mar 2024, 5:42pm
Forum: Lands End to John O'Groats
Topic: Record attempt scheduled
Replies: 1195
Views: 110126

Re: Record attempt scheduled

Notice up on the RRA website of a crack at the women’s tandem record - link
by ratherbeintobago
23 Mar 2024, 5:40pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: Dashcams in HGVs will help catch reckless drivers
Replies: 7
Views: 336

Re: Dashcams in HGVs will help catch reckless drivers

This is fine, but what they need to do is make it easier to upload video evidence,
by ratherbeintobago
17 Mar 2024, 1:31pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: LTN politics
Replies: 54
Views: 3589

Re: LTN politics

Interestingly, having make a lemon of herself in an interview a while back, Louise Haigh has been out round Sheffield on an ebike: https://road.cc/content/news/shadow-tra ... rsy-307317
by ratherbeintobago
16 Mar 2024, 6:41pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: LTN politics
Replies: 54
Views: 3589

Re: LTN politics

I don't really see why ATE should drop standards just because a small minority of noisy drivers object to anything (they will and do object to watered down schemes anyway).
This.
by ratherbeintobago
13 Mar 2024, 5:28pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: LTN politics
Replies: 54
Views: 3589

Re: LTN politics

@mjr I wouldn’t say the system is broken as such, but it’s important that councillors hear a range of views and that means those in favour of traffic restriction as well as those against.
by ratherbeintobago
13 Mar 2024, 1:38pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: LTN politics
Replies: 54
Views: 3589

Re: LTN politics

They listen to those who actively contact them
Which is why it’s important to do so.
But there's a definite increase in traffic on rural lanes and some of this is driven by route-planners.
There’s a theory that states that rural lanes only appear to be quicker to route planners as they’re NSL and if the limits on unclassified roads were set to something more realistic (eg. 30 mph) then they might not.
by ratherbeintobago
9 Mar 2024, 5:20pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: LTN politics
Replies: 54
Views: 3589

Re: LTN politics

Bmblbzzz wrote: 9 Mar 2024, 4:27pm Perhaps those parties are not really progressive, or at least are progressive only in certain aspects. As far as I know both Plaid Cymru and the Green Party support LTNs. I'm not sure about the SNP or any of the Northern Irish parties.
Maybe should have said *supposedly* progressive parties. The tendency to say “we support active travel but not this particular scheme” is frustrating.
by ratherbeintobago
9 Mar 2024, 3:10pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: LTN politics
Replies: 54
Views: 3589

Re: LTN politics

Surely given their desperation for votes it should be LTNs for all (also to expand on what I said above I can’t work out why progressive parties oppose this stuff, chasing the votes of people who probably won’t vote for them anyway)?
by ratherbeintobago
8 Mar 2024, 6:00pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: LTN politics
Replies: 54
Views: 3589

Re: LTN politics

The issue is whether the progressive parties will pick up on this or whether they’ll continue to embarrass themselves.
by ratherbeintobago
8 Mar 2024, 10:50am
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: LTN politics
Replies: 54
Views: 3589

Re: LTN politics

Guardian reporting significant health benefits of LTNs, and a cost:benefit of about 1:100 - link
by ratherbeintobago
26 Feb 2024, 1:34pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: LTN politics
Replies: 54
Views: 3589

Re: LTN politics

:lol:
by ratherbeintobago
2 Feb 2024, 12:31pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: LTN politics
Replies: 54
Views: 3589

Re: LTN politics

Wasn’t there some guidance recently that consultations were not to be treated as referenda?
by ratherbeintobago
1 Feb 2024, 1:44pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: LTN politics
Replies: 54
Views: 3589

Re: LTN politics

I think that’s Carlton Reid’s neck of the woods. I wonder what he makes of it.
by ratherbeintobago
31 Jan 2024, 3:36pm
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: LTN politics
Replies: 54
Views: 3589

Re: LTN politics

Living in a safe Lab council which is consistently poor on active travel and the environment, I couldn’t possibly comment.