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publication date: Aug 17, 2010
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author/source: Robin Roberts
Small businesses have clashed with the Welsh Assembly Government over road spending. The Federation of Small Businesses Wales had called on WAG to “state where their priorities lie” on infrastructure spending and claimed that money was being “siphoned” away from supporting small business for transport spending but the Welsh government said it had published a transport plan this summer which answered many criticisms. More than £140 million has been lost in the last year by drivers who broke down after taking a losing gamble that they wouldn’t need breakdown cover, according to the AA. Some 2 million people broke down without any form of breakdown cover, with many forking out nearly four times the price of basic cover when they had to arrange emergency one-off assistance from garages, according to new analysis by the UK’s biggest breakdown organisation. Using Facebook, twitter and Linked in, motorists are being invited to cut costs and reduce the emissions levels through a newly created website, gocarshare.com. It aims to bring users and travellers together to reduce conjestion and costs and it even suggests other ways to cut on car use or to earn money from having a car. TRACKER has revealed that it has recovered nearly double the number of stolen motorcycles in the first half of 2010 than it did in the whole of 2009. It also confirms that theft of motorcycles using the owner's keys is also on the rise and warns owners to keep keys for security devices and bikes out of sight. The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has backed plans to extend into Scotland the stopping powers of enforcement officers that currently exist in England, Wales and, via the Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA), into Northern Ireland. The proposals will also remove the cumbersome administrative process and will streamline the accreditation of VOSA officers. The leading trade body has long been a strong supporter of affording enforcement officers greater powers to stop commercial vehicles. |
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