ABD - Links to press articles

The Association of British Drivers
Links — Press Articles

Links to selected press and media articles about topics related to the aims of the ABD.

These links are generally to national or international media, and are about national issues.
For local news articles please see Local Issues.

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BBC, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Observer, The Scotsman, Times, & others

3 News (NZ) — Speed camera in lay-by triggers fatal car crash 2008-08-28
4CAR — Tackling road safety wrongly
ABC News — Iceland the First Country to Try Abandoning Gasoline 2006-01-18
The Australian — Bob Carter: Weathering the scaremongers' storms
Australian Daily Telegraph — Speed kills off sensible motoring 2007-03-23
An all too familiar saga.
Auto Express
- Mike Rutherford — The Tories, David Cameron, and car-hostile proposals. 2007-10-05
- Rising bollards set for a fall 2006-11-21
- Spies target Gatso vandals 2006-03-21
- Call for limits to be made clear 2005-07-26
- Cops Turn Off Plate Gadget 2005-07-20
- At Full Chat — 2005 General Election
  Mike Rutherford explains why he didn't vote in May 2005, and why the Tories lost again.
- Comment on DfT accident figures for 2003
BBC News
- Police 'to access road cameras' 2007-07-18
  Big Brother comes a step closer.
- Lawson attacks green 'alarmists' 2006-11-01
- Motorway Service Stations Rated 2006-03-07
- Drivers urged to avoid toll roads 2004-09-08
- Motorists face rising car costs 2004-09-01
- School runs do not cause obesity 2004-08-17
- Motorway traffic up 4% on 2003 2004-08-12
- Road penalties 'must fit offence' 2004-04-24
- Anger at plans for tax disc fines 2004-01-02
- Motorists to escape insurance ban 2003-06-09
- UK 'not ready' for traffic charge 2003-03-04
- 'Brain drain' fears over traffic charge 2002-10
  London Congestion Charge
- Speed camera rebels threaten sabotage 2002-09-03
- Speed cameras 'can cause accidents' 2002-08
  Accidents increase on roads in Leeds after speed cameras are installed.
- Removing signals ‘would make roads safer’ 2002-06-24
- Website traps speed cameras 2001-09
  Article about the UKspeedtraps website.
- Councils shun congestion charging 2001-03
Daily Mail
- Richard Littlejohn — A pint and a half sir? You're nicked 2008-03-31
- Richard Littlejohn — Skating towards a police state... 2007-08-07
- Richard Littlejohn — Ye Ende of Ye Worlde is Nigh 2007-07-26
- Richard Littlejohn — Seven letter bombs: 50 million suspects 2007-02-09
- Melanie Phillips — From economics to airconomics 2006-10-30
- The Great Speed Gun Scandal 2005-10-15
- Speed camera police chief caught...speeding 2004-11-21
Daily Mirror — Speed-Trap Family: We're Doing Fine 2003-11-09
Gatso camera dynasty making millions from your misery
Daily Mirror — Big Buses Give Me The Hump 2006-05-13
Richard Hammond comments
Daily Post — Death toll on roads warning 2003-11-09
Daily Telegraph / Sunday Telegraph
- New anti-terrorism rules 'allow US to spy on British motorists' 2008-04-21
- Drink-driving laws way over the limit (2nd story) 2008-04-06
- Lorry driver in challenge to Gore school film 2007-09-21
- Who are you kidding? 2007-06-30
  Toyota Prius owners are not happy.
- Tax threat to drivers using own cars for work 2007-05-20
- Climate chaos? Don't believe it 2006-11-05
- Just another excuse for higher taxes 2006-10-30
- Speed camera fines used to buy plasma TVs and T-shirts 2006-10-28
- Town Hall Tyrants Waging Class War 2006-10-27
- Four wheels bad 2006-03-31
- How drivers reclaimed the streets 2006-01-07
- Postcode lottery of speed camera fines 2005-12-31
- Case of driver who warned of speed trap may go to Lords 2005-12-30
- Cameron's first goof is on Kyoto 2005-12-11
- Make Sure Your Endorsement Isn't Even More Costly 2005-08-20
- Byers must listen to the global warming experts, not his master's voice 2005-02-07
- Cautious councils 'distract drivers with flood of signs' 2004-10-07
- Cars are more fuel-efficient than trains, claims study 2004-06-21
- Motorists, revolt: me, I'm on my bike 2004-05-20
- Labour targets middle-class criminals 2003-10-22
- Cameras put honest drivers at mercy of greedy policemen 2003-08-01
- Integrated transport? It's disintegrated 2003-08-01
- Duncan Smith in pledge to build more motorways 2003-07-23
- Mobility matters: community ideals for a feudal society
  Austin Williams warns that restrictions on car use could turn the clock back 700 years
- Stop! Look! Listen!
  Motor vehicles can cause injury or death and bad drivers are properly prosecuted, but what about pedestrians who cause accidents?
- The GATSO revolution
  Transport Research Group Director Austin Williams argues that speed cameras pose a threat to our freedom
Dallas Morning News — 'Black boxes' in cars raise concerns about privacy
Economist — The truth about the environment
The �litany� of environmental fears is not backed up by evidence
Edinburgh Evening News — Safety vanishes in a flash with cameras 2006-01-18
The case for speed cameras isn't built on evidence, but on faith.
Edinburgh Evening News — I am not a barcode .. I am a free man! 2006-04-07
Evening Standard — Speed cameras net �45m 2003-12-18
The Guardian
Our link to the Guardian is of course conclusive proof that the ABD is a left-wing socialist organization — according to their way of thinking.
- Police pursuits death toll rises 2004-03-03
- Jails overrun by motorists, prisons chief warns 2004-01-19
- Why I Hate Cyclists (Oct 2002)
  Michael Hann sums up cyclist culture nicely.
- Why no road rules rule 2002-06-30
- Stop rail subsidies 2002-01-18
  Alfred Sherman of the Centre for Policy Studies writes.
Hawke's Bay Today — Speed fines not cutting Bay deaths 2006-01-12
An editorial in a local paper in New Zealand slates road policing. Their problems sound all too familiar.
The Independent — Cameras trigger poor driving... but there is hope 2007-02-20
The Independent — Blair laid bare: the article that may get you arrested 2006-07-01
Don't let the police catch you reading this.
Insight — Putting the Brakes On Photo Radar
A US article on speed cameras around the world
Mail on Sunday — DVLA sells your details to criminals 2005-11-27
Manchester Online — Costs drive motorists away from their cars
Government anti-car policy reduces quality of life for half a million drivers.
Motorcycle News
- Speed Camera Loophole 2006-03-01
- MCN Right Over Loophole 2006-03-01
- The great GATSO con
- Don�t believe everything you read about speeding
National Review — Speed Doesn't Kill
How increasing the speed limit in the USA resulted in less accidents.
Norwich Evening News — Radical road speed trials a success 2004-08-26
The Observer
- Drivers face 24-hour spy cameras 2005-10-16
- Traffic police cuts linked to road deaths 2004-01-11
- That'll be three points - and �1,500 2003-10-26
- Saboteurs take out 700 speed cameras 2003-09-08
  We're amused to see that even the left-biased Observer calls them speed cameras not 'safety cameras', and delighted to see that they omit from their list of ‘useful links’ any sites such as ours that counter speed cameras — delighted because it shows how worried they are.
- Rail network set for further cuts 2003-03-02
- War on the car sparks driver rage
The Register — When is a speed camera not a speed camera?
San Francisco Chronicle — Gore's Greenhouse Gas 2000-10-15
Al Gore doesn't even believe in global warming.
Scotland on Sunday — Anti-car propaganda that is blindly accepted as truth 2004-09-12
Scotland on Sunday — Driven to distraction by hobgoblins and prejudice 2006-02-05
Scotland on Sunday — Potty ploys just the start of attacks on car drivers 2006-03-26
Scotland on Sunday — SNP vows to block road tolls north of Border 2007-10-07
The Scotsman
- Ban on illegal iPod and MP3 transmitters will be lifted 2006-07-14
  People-power forces government to scrap petty restrictions.
- Cameras 'Aim to Deny Criminals Use of the Road' 2005-03-23
- Activists accused of 'crying wolf' on climate
  WWF: "We don�t exaggerate. We are always very careful in our advertising." {ROFL}
- Road safety campaigners are missing real causes of accidents 2004-06-19
Sunday Mail (Scotland) — Speed camera panic may have caused death of motorist 2009-02-08
Sky News — Car Repair Costs Rip-Off 2004-06-17
Spectator — Who decided that all motorists were criminals? 2008-05-28
Spectator — Leo McKinstry writes about the Speed Camera Scam
Spiked — 'I hate driving in my car' 2004-09-23
Austin Williams comments on another looney council idea.
The Sun — Drivers Get Roughest Ride 2008-05-01
Sunday Times
- Driver Health: Danger, incorrect use of your car can damage your health 2005-08-25
- Hooray for roads and white van man Ferdinand Mount comments on the government's transport U-turn
- Police give public radar guns to nab speeding drivers
Sunday Tribune (South Africa) — Exposed: how cops rig speed traps
The Times
- Jeremy Clarkson — Unhand my patio heater, archbishop 2007-12-30
  JC comments on the Archbishop of Canterbury's Christmas speech.
- David Bellamy — Why I would rather be called a heretic on global warming 2007-10-22
- Alan Coren — Oh, unhappy me. I�m a car owner 2007-02-21
- Jeremy Clarkson — Here's to health and safety 2006-03-19
  JC explains what had happened to all those Trots and Bolsheviks from the 1970s
- Electronic Tags for Cars as Congestion Charge Spreads Out 2006-02-22
- Halt! This is the hi-tech highwayman 2006-01-15
- Top Traffic Cop Has Speed Convictions 2005-10-30
- Camera Spies in Million Cars to Trap Toll Cheats 2005-09-07
- Jenny Hjul — Driven to distraction by anti-car prejudice 2005-08-07
  Welcome to Edinburgh
- If 80mph is a safe speed, why isn't it made legal? 2005-04-24
- Speed camera blitz ahead 2005-02-09
- Save the world: ignore the ecogeeks 2005-01-01
  Bjorn Lomborg interviewed.
- The car represents freedom and progress, so let�s build more roads 2004-08-30
- Speed cameras secretly sited away from blackspots 2004-03-04
  Lie's, lies, and more lies.
- Speed camera fines to triple as limit is cut 2003-12-18
  Brunstrom's addiction to speed gets worse
- More tarmac means more freedom 2003-07-10
- Beg to differ 2003-04-17
  'Labour is stung by transport policy criticism'
- Oh, for DDT when this swarm of Meacher parasites descends on Joburg
  Johannesburg eco summit condemned
- Congestion charge scheme will make �28m for Capita
Washington Post — Apocalypse Soon? 2004-05-16
Weekly Standard (USA) — Report on red light & speed cameras in Washington D.C.
Extensive details on the money grabbing truth behind the 'safety' claims.
Wired News — Concept Cars Hop on Eco-Bandwagon 2003-04-21
Volvo's concept car does more good than harm.
Yahoo News — Greenpeace fined €4,000 under new Danish terror law 2005-06-10
Yahoo News — Blair Will Not Give Up Vacation Flights 2007-01-09
Tony Blair begins to show signs of adopting some common sense on a topical climate change issue, causing Greenpeace to predictably throw their rattle out of the pram, and hopefully making him realise what a bunch of nutters he's been dealing with.

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