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Urgent need for pay-per-mile road pricing, MPs say

Published 04 February 2022
By David Mullen
The UK must urgently introduce pay-per-mile road pricing to make up the £35bn budget shortfall created by the switch to electric cars, MPs say.
Inoperative smart motorway cameras mean motorists go unpunished for driving in closed lanes

Drivers in closed motorway lanes go unpunished

Motorists are escaping punishment for committing traffic offences on smart motorways due to a lack of working enforcement cameras.
Published 03 March 2021
M6 Toll motorway booth driver POV

Toll roads could be needed to plug EV road tax gap

A new form of road pricing will be needed if the government is serious about banning petrol and diesel cars, a cross-party group of MPs has said.
Published 11 October 2019
UK road pavement parking

MPs call for ban on pavement parking

A cross-party group of MPs has called on government to ban drivers from blocking footpaths by parking their cars on the kerb.
Published 17 September 2019

Ban drivers from using hands-free phones, MPs say

A cross-party group of MPs has said drivers should be banned from using hands-free mobile phones when they're behind the wheel on safety grounds,
Published 13 August 2019
Gone in a puff of smoke: UK spot checks on car emissions axed

Gone in a puff of smoke: UK spot checks on car emissions...

A cloud of grey-brown exhaust as a diesel car accelerates, an old car blowing blue oil smoke — sights like these are all too common on Britain’s...
Published 06 June 2016