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David Cameron Announces New Transport Team - May 2010

Since the election on 6 May, new Prime Minister David Cameron has announced the new ministerial team at the Department for Transport. The team is led by secretary of state Philip Hammond, a Conservative MP now in charge of high-speed rail. Another name of note includes London MP and former Tory shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers, now in charge of the capitals transport brief,and having responsibilities for rail and aviation. Hemel Hempstead Conservative MP Mike Penning has been given the roads brief. Liberal Democrat Norman Baker takes the regional and local transport briefs.

David Cameron has pledged to keep good ministers in their posts for longer than previous administrations in order to improve the quality of policy-making. He wants us to have ministers who are good ministers, in post, knowing the agenda, getting things done, year after year. Of the last four transport secretaries under the Labour Government, not one of them lasted more than 16 months.

Baywatch on Supermarket Patrol - April 2010

A recent study into attitudes towards disabled people at supermarkets has discovered that members of the able-bodied public routinely park in spaces allocated to Blue Badge holders.

Just a few comments noted by the Baywatch survey participants include accounts of swearing and violent threats to break windscreens or let tyres down when disabled motorists challenge drivers parked in their alloted places.

One of the worse offenders was Tesco where almost a quarter of all accessible bays were being used by people without a Blue Badge. The best performing supermarket was Sainsbury, even though they still had an average level of parking abuse of 16 percent, almost half of the surveyors reported no abuse in a Sainsbury car park.

The survey showed that enforcement does work, with a measurable improvement at those stores where it had been introduced.

From Parking News

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