MPs have suggested that road users need to be more alert to traffic reports to reduce congestion on the country’s roads. As a courier or transport provider do you have an ‘I know better’ complex or do you always heed the advice of the radio or matrix signs?
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As part of the Out Of The Jam: Reducing congestion on our roads report MPs looked at ways to ease bottlenecks and delays on the UK’s roads – with some suggestions that if nothing is done congestion will cost the UK economy £24m per year by 2025.
Suggestions included more demanding driving tests, stricter adherence to the Highway Code and better co-ordination between councils, highways agencies and maintenance companies.
Committee chair Louise Ellman said; “Improving the way we manage road space so that the network runs more smoothly is vital to the prosperity of the nation. Pursuing this challenge should form a key plank of central government transport policy.”
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