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by the London Lorry Control Unit is going to be very expensive (news story page 12). May I, through the pages of your esteemed organ, appeal for financial assistance?
This conviction, like many others for the same offence, is unjust. This industry is paying up without a fight— we must appeal. I really don't want to pay a £50 fine on principal.
My analogy is that of a car driver stopped by a policeman and told that he will be prosecuted for dri ving in a one-way street, despite the lack of signs telling him it was a one-way street. The LBTS does not need to erect signs; it simply designates any road it wishes, on an A4-size map.
I have recently become a county councillor for the Isle of Wight (yes, I'm on the Roads & Transport Committee!).
The attitude of my fellow councillors is amazing— most seem to want artics banned or restricted (I'm asking them how they think transfering a 25-tonne load to six smaller vehicles would ease congestion).
Some even want mainland coaches banned—they argue that if passengers were forced to transfer to Island coaches it would create jobs for Islanders!
I doubt the will exists for these policies, but the think■ ing scares me. I'm a Conservative, but I suspect this anti-car/lorry/coach feeling crosses the political divide. We must come out and fight for the truth.
Our "Chair" of the Roads and Transport Committee stood as a Green candidate in the last general election; now he's serving as an independent councillor. At our first post-election meeting, the first agenda item was to change the name of the corn mittee to TRANSPORTATION. Ho-hum... David Holmes, Holmes of Heathrow, Ashford, Middx.