RE: M1 Car-Share Lane 'Scrapped'
Wednesday 26th March 2008
Government plans for a car-share lane on the M1 have been dropped, it has been revealed.
M1 Car-Share Lane 'Scrapped'
Campaign for Better Transport says a proposed M1 car-share lane has now been abandoned by the Government
The Campaign for Better Transport has unearthed a u-turn on the proposals, announced by Alistair Darling in 2004.
The decision to drop the promised M1 car-share lane was buried on page 65 of an 80-page report published this month, it said.
Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly only recently opened the ‘first’ motorway car-share lane on the M606/M62, but it appears the Government may be rethinking its approach to such schemes.
The Campaign for Better Transport supports car-share lanes and wrote to Transport Minister Tom Harris in October 2007 asking him to re-commit to the M1 HOV lane but never received a reply.
Campaign for Better Transport’s roads and climate campaigner Rebecca Lush Blum said: ‘We are disappointed that the Government has decided not to back the important M1 car-share lane. Car-share lanes work elsewhere in the world, cutting congestion and carbon emissions.’
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"The Campaign for Better Transport has unearthed a u-turn on the proposals, announced by Alistair Darling in 2004.
The decision to drop the promised M1 car-share lane was buried on page 65 of an 80-page report published this month, it said."
'Buried' on the front page of the BBC News website, two days ago, too.
The decision to drop the promised M1 car-share lane was buried on page 65 of an 80-page report published this month, it said."
'Buried' on the front page of the BBC News website, two days ago, too.
Don't celebrate just yet PHers. I think the government are just playing us. They say they will introduce a whole raft of changes, we complain, they say fine we'll be nice and won't do x, y and z. We are overjoyed despite the fact changes a,b and c will be implamented nonetheless. One small victory here, despite losing the general motoring battle.
JimSuperSix said:
"Rebecca Lush Blum" - now there's a name that spends all day at home in Surrey with little Tarquin and Joshua playing by the aga while dreaming up new ways to annoy the poor...
yep, green wax jackets, golden retreivers and a Range Rovers, i'm picturing the family of uppercrust c*nts I exchanged words with on Ivinghoe Beacons the other week....
Campaign for Better Transport’s roads and climate campaigner Rebecca Lush Blum said: ‘We are disappointed that the Government has decided not to back the important M1 car-share lane. Car-share lanes work elsewhere in the world, cutting congestion and carbon emissions.’
I aggree they do work but only in places like America where there roads are so much bigger, with less traffic on in the first place.
I aggree they do work but only in places like America where there roads are so much bigger, with less traffic on in the first place.
JimSuperSix said:
"Rebecca Lush Blum" - now there's a name that spends all day at home in Surrey with little Tarquin and Joshua playing by the aga while dreaming up new ways to annoy the poor...
Brilliant...Unfortunately though it's far worse then that.
Experience: I co-founded Road Alert, the national network for the anti-road protests in the 1990s. I took part in protests against the motorway through Twyford Down, the M11 in London and the Newbury Bypass, as well as many others. In 1993 I was one of the ‘Twyford Six’, sentenced to a month in prison for taking part in a peaceful protest. In 2005 I set up Road Block, a network of local community groups fighting road schemes in their areas. In 2007 Road Block became a project of the Campaign for Better Transport.
Read it and weep http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/node/62
cowellsj said:
JimSuperSix said:
"Rebecca Lush Blum" - now there's a name that spends all day at home in Surrey with little Tarquin and Joshua playing by the aga while dreaming up new ways to annoy the poor...
yep, green wax jackets, golden retreivers and a Range Rovers, i'm picturing the family of uppercrust c*nts I exchanged words with on Ivinghoe Beacons the other week....
Maybe Rebecca is a big lady and actually has a 'Plush Bum' so when someone knocks her on it there's less damage done 
Cowellsj - Ivinghoe beacon.....Beautiful!! Only prob is it's pretty posh down that way so you're bound to come across a few upper class caunts with plums in their bums
Cowellsj - Ivinghoe beacon.....Beautiful!! Only prob is it's pretty posh down that way so you're bound to come across a few upper class caunts with plums in their bums
Bunglist said:
Campaign for Better Transport’s roads and climate campaigner Rebecca Lush Blum said: ‘We are disappointed that the Government has decided not to back the important M1 car-share lane. Car-share lanes work elsewhere in the world, cutting congestion and carbon emissions.’
I agree they do work but only in places like America where there roads are so much bigger, with less traffic on in the first place.
Yes? Tell me that when I am stuck on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles. Stopped, along with the other 4 lanes of traffic, while there is an empty HOV lane next to me with 2-3 cars going by every 30 seconds. What a waste of our tax dollars! I think they are doing the right thing by trashing the idea.I agree they do work but only in places like America where there roads are so much bigger, with less traffic on in the first place.
cowellsj said:
JimSuperSix said:
"Rebecca Lush Blum" - now there's a name that spends all day at home in Surrey with little Tarquin and Joshua playing by the aga while dreaming up new ways to annoy the poor...
yep, green wax jackets, golden retreivers and a Range Rovers, i'm picturing the family of uppercrust c*nts I exchanged words with on Ivinghoe Beacons the other week....
Don't forget the mid 90s Subaru Legacy Estate, flat caps and a house full of cobwebs and pictures of the Queen.
Edited by AstonV12 on Wednesday 26th March 13:13
ukmountie said:
JimSuperSix said:
"Rebecca Lush Blum" - now there's a name that spends all day at home in Surrey with little Tarquin and Joshua playing by the aga while dreaming up new ways to annoy the poor...
Brilliant...Unfortunately though it's far worse then that.
Experience: I co-founded Road Alert, the national network for the anti-road protests in the 1990s. I took part in protests against the motorway through Twyford Down, the M11 in London and the Newbury Bypass, as well as many others. In 1993 I was one of the ‘Twyford Six’, sentenced to a month in prison for taking part in a peaceful protest. In 2005 I set up Road Block, a network of local community groups fighting road schemes in their areas. In 2007 Road Block became a project of the Campaign for Better Transport.
Read it and weep http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/node/62
They spend two years screwing up the local traffic and countryside at the cost of god knows how many billions and then turn round at the last minute and just turn it into another lane.
From the outside this was never going to be a car-sharing lane in the first place, just called that to get through the regulations.
Well done boys.
From the outside this was never going to be a car-sharing lane in the first place, just called that to get through the regulations.
Well done boys.
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