“It will not be long before councils install so many speed humps that they will join up, and you will be able to enjoy uninterrupted motoring, albeit four inches higher than you used to.”

“...speed humps slow ambulances down, damage the vehicles, and worsen the ride for patients...”

“...prosperous free cities are always congested places. The last time I saw really empty streets and deserted motorways was in East Germany before the Wall came down.”

“Why exactly can?t we build our way out of transport problems? That, after all, is what we have always managed to do, transporting ourselves out of the caves, along the Roman roads, on to the Victorian railways and our modern motorways. On Friday night, my wife drove us non-stop to Manchester, by using the new M6 toll road to bypass Spaghetti Junction — proof that it remains entirely possible to build our way out of a problem by making Birmingham disappear.”

“I was responsible for the introduction of road humps. Would that I could have my time again.”

“Road planning ended in Britain in the third century a.d. when Rome recalled the troops.”

“Galileo will deliver the tools national governments need to introduce wide-scale road charging.”

“I think all of the urban, privately owned toll roads are a disgrace to the State and economically unjustified.”

“Although the use of VMS as part of a wider campaign appear to be effective, research has shown that overuse of VMS messages can dramatically reduce their impact and therefore it is not effective to display the messages too often.”