As an aside on "Light Trucks" ie Tonka Tanks, they are simply exempt from many of the safety regs that apply to cars in the USA. That's been a scandal for a very long time, and manufac… (View Post)

AIUI (and this may be some way off) there are perhaps 3 political traditions in support of countryside access: 1 - Labour / working class. 2 - Liberal radicals. 3 - Paternalistic Tories eg consider s… (View Post)

I hope there's been a sea change. Nulab did a lot, but got quite bogged down. One notorious move was around the Right to Claim Rights of Way due to historic usage, where an agreement had been re… (View Post)

There's also a lot of stuff about heavier vehicles hitting the torso or the head, rather than the legs, so causing more serious injuries - in addition to poorer visibility, less stability etc, a… (View Post)

I think that the other half of that is that breaching the 30mph limit was common previoualy, and the key gain is from reducing speeds of 34-38mph down to perhaps 25-29mph. We still have speeding, but… (View Post)