Dept of Transport f**king motorists

[Ruprect]

Interesting interview with the current minister of transport on AM this morning - said that the "war on motorists" is over and quoted 2 things that the govt would be looking at:

1) Coned off lanes where no traffic works happening
2) Review of how motorway accidents are dealt with (i.e. shutting motorways for hours on end)

Now I'm not a conspiracy nut, or a geek who follows travel stats, however I found this interesting because I'd thought that the number of road closures due to accidents was going up... and for me to notice this with the few times I actually do use the car, made me wonder whether this was a policy directive. This interview was as close to an admission of such a policy that I've ever seen.

[shaunbhoy]

Instead of investigating the cause of Road deaths in future, they will probably just issue you with a fecking Crime Number that you can use to claim off your insurance for gore-damage etc.

[NickFitz]

CBRD has a detailed article explaining what goes on when there's a "major incident" on a trunk route. I wonder which steps in the process they're planning to eradicate?

[vetran]

no problem with them closing the motorway if there is a 17 car pile up, its 2 lanes closed because someone ran out of petrol on the hard shoulder 10 feet from the exit and being attended by a range rover with a rigid tow bar that gets me.

[thunderlizard]

1) Coned off lanes where no traffic works happening

A repeat of John Major's Cones Hotline?

[Platypus]

A repeat of John Major's Cones Hotline?

Ah, the old policies are the best !

Nice to see this government so keen on recycling rubbish

[Not So Wise]

Hate this lot (always did)
Hate the old lot even more

*Wants a revolution to end democracy because average voter is too stupid to elect decent leaders*

[SupremeSpod]

Hate this lot (always did)
Hate the old lot even more

*Wants a revolution to end democracy because average voter is too stupid to elect decent leaders*

Oh dear.

(Talk like that and they won't even bang on your door, they'll break it in!)