Clean Air Zones (CAZ) are a cost:benefit fail, not an economic benefitA new CBI Economics report claims that even a small reduction in nitrogen dioxide…
Bob Bull2021-04-14
ISSUE DATE: 3 March 2021 The continuing freeze on fuel duty is good news for the economy, but UK drivers remain amongst the highest taxed in…
Ian Taylor2021-03-03
ISSUE DATE: 28 February 2021 Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) Report highlights the economic damage from even a 2p rise in fuel duty. ABD…
Ian Taylor2021-03-01
The verdict of air pollution being a contributory factor was made in the absence of measured data, under intense emotional and political pressure The following…
Bob Bull2020-12-17
The Daily Telegraph has run a couple of interesting articles on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) recently. The first one (see Reference 1 below for link…
Ian Taylor2020-12-07
Witnesses seem to have a political, personal or professional interest in implicating air pollution from traffic as a cause of death. The second inquest into…
Bob Bull2020-11-30
Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) Report highlights the economic damage from even a 2p rise in fuel duty. ABD Spokesman Paul Biggs said:…
Bob Bull2020-11-24
Many thanks to LTT for summarising the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution’s latest position on air pollution and health (‘COMEAP sums up…
Bob Bull2020-11-21
An arbitrary target date for banning new petrol/diesel cars and vans is based on costly virtue signalling. It is widely reported that Boris Johnson is…
Bob Bull2020-11-18
14 Tory MPs so far have signed the letter to Grant Shapps (1) highlighting the damage being done by road blocks and cycle lanes installed…
Ian Taylor2020-11-10
Despite substantial recent expansion of the cycle network nationwide, there has been no corresponding increase in the uptake of cycling. The ABD is neither in…
Ian Taylor2020-11-08
The Government has responded to the parliamentary petition which called for withdrawal of guidance and funding of road closures and cycle lanes that are creating…
Bob Bull2020-10-28
The Guardian’s hysterical piece (21 October 2020) objecting to the Alliance of British Drivers giving evidence on road safety to a Select Committee plumbs new…
Ian Taylor2020-10-26
Highways England (HE) is proposing to reduce the motorway speed limit for all traffic, including "zero" tailpipe- (but in practice merely geographically displaced) emissions electric…
Ian Taylor2020-09-24
The Alliance of British Drivers has long argued that there is way too much scaremongering about the impact on people’s health of air pollution. We…
Ian Taylor2020-09-11
The Traffic Management Act was passed by Parliament in 2004. Its objective was to improve the management of the road network. Part 2 of the…
Ian Taylor2020-09-09
The national news media are finally waking up to the damaging road closures caused by Grant Shapps’ directives encouraging local councils to promote “active” travel…
Ian Taylor2020-08-23
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) are being promoted by local councils and central government and are actually being implemented in many locations around the country. Typically…
Ian Taylor2020-08-18
The Daily Telegraph covered the alleged “culture war” caused by road closures in Islington today. The article said: “The leader of Islington council, Richard Watts,…
Ian Taylor2020-08-13
