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Fact: A Lower Drink-Drive Limit Doesn’t Reduce Crashes

Annual calls for the drink-drive limit to be reduced from 0.08% blood alcohol content (BAC) to 0.05% are unsupported by the evidence and data.In December…
Paul Biggs
Paul Biggs1st September 2021
Climate Change

UN Climate Report: Alarmism On Steroids

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 Biggs
Paul Biggs12th August 2021
FairfuelGeneral News

2030 Petrol/Diesel Ban: APPG Fair Fuel For UK Motorists And Hauliers Report Released

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…
Karl
Karl2nd August 2021
Decarbonisation

End Of The Road For Classic Cars?

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 Biggs
Paul Biggs26th July 2021
ABDAir Pollution

Press Release – CBI Economics CAZ Report Is Based On Flawed Assumptions

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 Biggs
Paul Biggs14th April 2021
Climate Change

Press Release: WMCA – Stay Home For Net Zero

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 Biggs
Paul Biggs26th March 2021
Taxation

Press Release: ABD Welcomes Budget Fuel Duty Freeze

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 Taylor
Ian Taylor3rd March 2021
Taxation

Press Release: Budget 2021 – Why A Hike in Fuel Duty Would Be Folly

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 Taylor
Ian Taylor1st March 2021
ABDAir Pollution

Press Release: Reaction To The Ella Kissi-Debrah Second Inquest

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 Biggs
Paul Biggs17th December 2020
Air PollutionLow Traffic Neighbourhoods

Blog: Pollution in LTN Rose, Nigel Farage’s Roads Election Pledge & Emergency Service Access Problems

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 Taylor
Ian Taylor7th December 2020
ABDAir Pollution

Press Release: New Ella Kissi-Debrah Inquest – One-Sided Evidence?

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 Biggs
Paul Biggs30th November 2020
ABDTaxation

Press Release: Spending Review 2020 – Why A Hike In Fuel Duty Would Be Folly

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 Biggs
Paul Biggs24th November 2020
ABDAir Pollution

Letter: Air Pollution Does Not Cause 40,000 Deaths A Year

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 Biggs
Paul Biggs21st November 2020
ABD

Press Release: 2030 Diesel/Petrol Vehicle Ban – ABD Suggests Free Market Forces Should Decide

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 Biggs
Paul Biggs18th November 2020
Anti-DriverReduced Road Space. Covid-19 As Excuse

Press Release: MPs Call On Shapps To End The War On Drivers

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 Taylor
Ian Taylor10th November 2020
Anti-DriverReduced Road Space. Covid-19 As Excuse

Press Release: Anti-Driver Measures Risk Fuelling Future Electoral Meltdown

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 Taylor
Ian Taylor8th November 2020
ABDLow Traffic Neighbourhoods

Government Rejects Popular E-Petition Against Road Closures

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 Biggs
Paul Biggs28th October 2020
Speed Limits

Press Release: Scientifically-Based Speed Limit Setting Is Being Undermined By Ignorance

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 Taylor
Ian Taylor26th October 2020
ABDAir PollutionSpeed Limits

Press Release: HE’s Proposed Motorway Speed Limit Reduction to 60mph borders on Economic Vandalism

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 Taylor
Ian Taylor24th September 2020
Air Pollution

Does Closing Roads Reduce Pollution and Improve Improve Health?

Photo: Horncastle Road The Alliance of British Drivers has long argued that there is way too much scaremongering about the impact on people’s health of…
Ian Taylor
Ian Taylor11th September 2020
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