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8/8/2019 Unnecessary Laws and Regulations in the Transport Sector
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Unnecessary laws and regulations in the transport sector?By colinbuchanan
The Government has recently launched its Your Freedom website . Its aim is to identify “unnecessary laws and regulations – both for individuals and businesses”. The website
has proved so popular that it has crashed on a number of occasions due to the
unexpected high volume of usage.
A wide range of transport issues have been raised so far, mainly in relation to motoring,
although these have included adding new regulations as well as removing existing ones.
In relation to parking, ideas include; removing all single and double yellow lines unless
they are justified for safety reasons, requiring bank holidays to be treated as Sundays for
parking and bus lane enforcement purposes, banning the use of wheel clamps on private
land, preventing the DVLA from selling car ownership details to private companies,
scrapping Nottingham’s workplace parking levy, removing parking restrictions for new
developments and preventing the use of CCTV cameras to enforce parking restrictions.
Speed limits are another popular area of comment, suggestions include; replacing all the
national speed limit signs with normal speed signs (that is a sign showing an actual speed
limit on it, which by default would lead to the scrapping of differential speed limits for
vehicle types), scrap the lower speed limits for HGVs, abolish, or at least, raise motorway
speed limits, scrap speed cameras and remove speed humps.
On the railways attention is mainly linked with the ability of the railways to issue penalty
fares and its prosecution policy which respondents want removed.
The taxi trade has highlighted a number of laws they want amended including the Town
Police Clauses Act , 1847 which gives power to the relevant councils to suspend a taxi
driver for 28 days if seen, and photographed on a bus lane, or a double yellow line. In
addition there are calls to allow taxis to pick up passengers outside their own council
area.
However, it is the minor changes that people want to see that are perhaps the most
interesting. So, for example, a restaurant wants to be able to provide a courtesy car
service for its customers without having to be registered as a taxi, while volunteers
working on the railways want to be able to do more without having to obtain expensive
insurance cover.
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Your Freedom is a useful concept and it will be interesting to see how many if any of
people’s favourite bugbears are actually removed.