» Listings for June 2011

1. Survey finds that College Students are using mobile apps whilst driving

   Posted on 6:07pm Wednesday 29th Jun 2011

   College students use mobile apps while driving

   According to a new study more than one-third of college students are using mobile phone applications while driving. The worst about it is that some students continue using the phone applications after being in auto accidents.

2. Councilman charged AGAIN for Driving on a suspeneded licence

   Posted on 5:54pm Wednesday 29th Jun 2011

   Erie county councilman charged again for driving on a suspended licence.
   

    

   Erie County Councilman Ebert Beeman said Tuesday he does not remember being pulled over for driving on a suspended license earlier this month.

   It has been at least two years since he was arrested for that, he said.

   The Waterford councilman -- already beset by legal problems, including a federal indictment -- faces new charges, nonetheless.

3. a recent poll shows how Rude, discourteous driving is on the upswing

   Posted on 5:45pm Wednesday 29th Jun 2011

   It's getting uglier on the roads, according to an opinion survey of B.C. motorists conducted for ICBC.

   Fifty-five per cent of Lower Mainland residents believe drivers in their community have become less courteous over the past five years, the Ipsos Reid survey found.

4. Test Centre re-opened

   Posted on 5:37pm Wednesday 29th Jun 2011

   Test centre to go back on driving route

   A driving test centre is to re-open – six months after it was closed due to a lack of demand.

   The Driving Standards Agency has announced it will resume testing in Cumnock, Ayrshire, by the end of July.

   The centre, in Hall Terrace, closed in January after a multi-purpose test centre opened in Ayr.

   Re-opening the centre is part of a national trial to provide a more local service for test candidates. Ayrshire is one of seven UK areas to be part of the trial.

5. Shropshire Parking Fee Rises

   Posted on 12:02pm Wednesday 29th Jun 2011

   Parking fee rises are hidden on website!!

   Hidden away, for those who choose to seek out the appropriate part of the council's website in order to make an official complaint, is the information that the charge for residents parking in north Shropshire market towns, whether on street or on car parks, is to be increased from £50 a year to £110 when passes issued this year expire. 

   This is an increase of 120%

   If Shropshire council can't stop harrying motorists in rural areas, while boasting that counsel tax is not increased, and stop wasting money on fancy offices and spending fortunes on credit cards, they will have to do without this lifelong conservative's vote next time.

   They should concentrate their efforts on cutting out waste.!

   Any tax payer could give them some good ideas.