Calling all,
Our excuse for a government is again planning more speed limits, speed cuts and all the usual things it does rather than improve our roads, put more police on our streets and so on.
The Department of Transport has released a new consultation on its vision of making our roads safer here:
http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roadsafety/roadsafetyconsultation/
It is all the usual stuff with selective statistics, assumptions without proof and fails to study or suggest anything new. We are given the opportunity to reply by emailing answers to their questions to:
roadsafetyconsultation@dft.gsi.gov.uk
Can I all urge you to reply in as much detail as possible, but even simple yes or no answers are better than nothing.
The basic questions asked are:
The original document is long but a quick skim read will soon aid you with what you need to reply so do not let this put you off.
Please all just write something, anything. This is our chance to respond. Please also spread this as far and wide as you can as most people will not even know this consultation exists.
Do not assume other will reply as the last consultation I took part in had just 12 replies, 6 of which were from forums like this after I made people aware of it!! And of course consultation writers (DVLA) stated the low number of responses was an indication that very few people objected to the proposals!!! The DofT will be the same, dont let them!!
This your chance, please act now as the consultation ends mid July. Dont leave it for some one else then complain when you see more speed cameras, speed limits and when we are all forced to scrap our cars due to compulsory ABS etc!!!