Ian Armstrong has posted the following article on a public Facebook Group:

Six petitions you should support to put pressure on Parliament to prevent motorists being used as a cash cow by the Local Councils/London Mayor/London Assembly/TFL – click, sign and share with family/friends/neighbours/etc

1. Prevent local authorities implementing road charging schemes by repealing part 3 of the Transport Act 2000 – local authority should not be permitted to generate revenue from motorists to fund other policies

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/637066

2. Remove the Mayor’s power to impose road use charges – no mayor should be permitted to generate revenue from motorists to fund other policies

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/633550

3. Referendum on removing the London Mayor/London Assembly – at the very least we need reform if not removal

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/631763

4. Independent review of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) – these are the stepping stones to 15-minute cities and must be challenged as they are being imposed against the will of the majority using cherry picked and flawed assessment or modelling data as a justification

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/632748

5. Allow Recall of Local Councillors, Mayors and London Assembly – if they are convicted or suspended we should be able to remove them from office

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/633147

6. Require public referendums on 15-minute town and city policies – this is what we might end up being imposed upon us if we don’t register our dissatisfaction to all of these petitions

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/633819

These are all U.K. parliament petitions – they take a minute or two each to sign – you can click on the map link on the petition page to see your constituency

Please sign all 6 to try and get them all to 100k ASAP.

Note that the Sunday Times published a good article recently on Why Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are a Policy Disaster by Andrew Ellson. To quote from it: “How have we got into this mess? The answer is complex but it boils down to cycling enthusiasts such as Boris Johnson and Andrew Gilligan being in charge of policy at national level and well-funded cycling lobbyists capturing policy at local level”.

These policies were promoted by people who knew little about traffic engineering and the history of misguided road safety initiatives with the unintended consequences that we now suffer from.

Hopefully with Boris Johnson retiring in disgrace we may see less of him and his enthusiasms. Let us hope he does not put himself forward as a candidate for Mayor of London next year which would split the Conservative vote!

He may have been a great promoter of Brexit, which I wholeheartedly supported, but in other regards he was a divisive personality and clearly untrustworthy.

Roger Lawson

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