The Alliance of British Drivers totally backs the recommendation in the recent FairFuelUK All Party Parliamentary Group for UK Motorists and Road Hauliers report ,…
Paul Biggs5th September 2021
50 years of failed predictions continue with yet another 10 years to avert the end of the world.A brief history of UN alarmism and failed…
Paul Biggs12th August 2021
All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) report provides the scrutiny that has so far been avoided by the government. For some time now the ABD has…
Karl2nd August 2021
Decarbonisation Minister states that there are no plans to remove older cars and classic cars from the roads "at this stage." Minister Rachel Mclean made…
Paul Biggs26th July 2021
Clean Air Zones (CAZ) are a cost:benefit fail, not an economic benefitA new CBI Economics report claims that even a small reduction in nitrogen dioxide…
Paul Biggs14th April 2021
West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) wants people to stay at home after Covid-19 to help meet net zero and Paris Agreement climate targets.WMCA has published…
Paul Biggs26th March 2021
ISSUE DATE: 3 March 2021 The continuing freeze on fuel duty is good news for the economy, but UK drivers remain amongst the highest taxed in…
Ian Taylor3rd March 2021
ISSUE DATE: 28 February 2021 Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) Report highlights the economic damage from even a 2p rise in fuel duty. ABD…
Ian Taylor1st March 2021
The verdict of air pollution being a contributory factor was made in the absence of measured data, under intense emotional and political pressure The following…
Paul Biggs17th December 2020
The Daily Telegraph has run a couple of interesting articles on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) recently. The first one (see Reference 1 below for link…
Ian Taylor7th December 2020
Witnesses seem to have a political, personal or professional interest in implicating air pollution from traffic as a cause of death. The second inquest into…
Paul Biggs30th November 2020
Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) Report highlights the economic damage from even a 2p rise in fuel duty. ABD Spokesman Paul Biggs said:…
Paul Biggs24th November 2020
Many thanks to LTT for summarising the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution’s latest position on air pollution and health (‘COMEAP sums up…
Paul Biggs21st November 2020
An arbitrary target date for banning new petrol/diesel cars and vans is based on costly virtue signalling. It is widely reported that Boris Johnson is…
Paul Biggs18th November 2020
14 Tory MPs so far have signed the letter to Grant Shapps (1) highlighting the damage being done by road blocks and cycle lanes installed…
Ian Taylor10th November 2020
Despite substantial recent expansion of the cycle network nationwide, there has been no corresponding increase in the uptake of cycling. The ABD is neither in…
Ian Taylor8th November 2020
The Government has responded to the parliamentary petition which called for withdrawal of guidance and funding of road closures and cycle lanes that are creating…
Paul Biggs28th October 2020
ABD HITS BACK AT ATTEMPTS TO SILENCE THE GROUP The Guardian’s hysterical piece (21 October 2020) objecting to the Alliance of British Drivers giving evidence…
Ian Taylor26th October 2020
Highways England (HE) is proposing to reduce the motorway speed limit for all traffic, including "zero" tailpipe- (but in practice merely geographically displaced) emissions electric…
Ian Taylor24th September 2020