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  1. Test Centre re-opened

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    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.

  2. Shropshire Parking Fee Rises

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    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.

  3. Smartphone apps can cause car crashes

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    Smartphone Apps Causing Car Crashes

    Texting and chatting aren't the only cell phone functions distracting drivers, motorists are also being enticed to take their eyes off the road by their phones' increasing number of apps.

    According to recent University of Alabama at Birmingham survey, 10 percent of students said they use apps often, almost always, or every time they drive. Another 33 percent of the 93 students surveyed said they sometimes use apps while driving.

  4. Drivers Survey : winter/speed cameras

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    Road condition and winter driving

    (winter came with a bang, tyres flattened in potholes – extra cash for repairs and inquiry after inquiry)

    51% expected road gritting in winter 2010/2011 to be better than the winter before. After significant snowfall this fell by 19% to 32% who thought gritting had actually been any better.

    44% of drivers did nothing during 2010 to be better prepared if winter 2010/11 was as bad as winter 2009/10.

    Speed cameras

    (The war on the motorist is over, cameras go cameras come – drivers dont really mind as long as improvement courses not points remain an option)

    75% of  members say speed cameras are acceptable or very acceptable.

    79% of  members agree with the idea of offering drivers courses for minor motoring offences.

  5. Motorists survey: Speed Limits

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    Speed limits

    (new speed limit guidance due but motorway limit held)

    from AA

    There has been speculation about the introduction of an 80mph motorway limit and Government is reducing red tape to make it easier to introduce 20mph zones.

    • 63% of respondents felt the motorway speed limit should be increased
    • 23% felt any new motorway speed limit should be strictly enforced
    • 39% felt any new motorway speed limit should be enforced as the 70 limit is now
    • 56% agree there should be more 20mph zones but only on residential streets