Madness in the Dept for Transport....

[Workingman]

... and Defra.

Defra has told Birmingham, Leeds, Nottingham, Derby and Southampton to introduce clean air zones within four years to reduce pollutants. Yet these cities have introduced traffic calming measures which force drivers to drive their vehicles inefficiently, thus increasing pollutants, which are linked to the deaths of 40,000 people a year in the UK.

Next, step in the DfT, or DAFT. It wants electric cars to have priority at traffic lights and to be exempted from one-way systems - effectively to able to go the wrong way down one-way streets!

If it is dangerous for cars, motorbikes and push-bikes to go the wrong way down one-way streets then it is equally dangerous for electric vehicles to do so. I do hope somebody can pass on this simple fact to the planners' focus group. I would also like to know how these boneheads are going to filter traffic approaching traffic lights so that electric cars get priority.

Surely, if the claim is that electric cars are so much cleaner, then they should be at the back of the queue. That way the nasty, dirty, vehicles are allowed to keep moving as that makes them more efficient? (TIC)

[cromwell]

These people are known as absolutists WM. As in, they can absokuteky never be wrong about anything. You can provide them with 10,000 tons of evidence proving that they are wrong, but they'll never admit it.

Around us, we have those cycle boxes at traffic lights, the ones that are supposed to let cyclists set off in front of motorised traffic. Things might be different in London, but around here I have never seen these thing used by a cyclist. Not once.

So the council had a consultation excercise and concluded that the boxes weren't working because they weren't big enough...
They can't be wrong, you see.

I must admit, I wondered how an electric car could automatically get to the head of the queue at traffic lights. I'll try it myself. If I'm stopped because i'm not driving an electric car my answer will be "well. it's got electricity in it - a battery, spark plugs, alternator.."

[AliasAggers]

I haven't heard anything so daft for donkey's years.

[Suff]

Of course Electric cars are charged from the grid and the grid is powered, mainly, by???? Erm.... Coal, Oil and Gas.

Yes, oh so clean.....

Politicians and buzzwords. Idiotic morons. Do they think we are so stupid as them? Perhaps they are not clever enough to realise we are not!