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The motoring associations have to gang a bit warily on transport policy as a rule; they represent so many diverse interests. So it did my old heart good to hear Lord Chesham having a real outspoken "go" last week. (Perhaps I'm biased; I admire the way he has chaired CM's conferences.) Not everything he said would endear him to the road transport industry, but as executive vice-chairman of the RAC he was on very solid ground in:— (a) Slamming the proposal to use parking meter surpluses to subsidize public transport.
(b) Opposing the suggestion that offstreet parking—which was to have been meter-subsidized—should be deliberately limited.
(c) Scorning as bureaucratic interference the plans by some councils for controlling all off-street parking to prevent or deter long-term "non-essential" parkers.
And he rounds that off with: "Can you imagine a more objectionable traffic dictator than an official empowered to decide which are 'non-essential' parkers?"
Leading question!