Following front page article in today's issue of THE TIMES,via the internet PLEASE SEARCH FOR: 10 downing street, then click on "Petition the Prime Minister", then click "View Petitions", then click the petition category "Transport and Infrastructure", then click "Scrap the planned vehicle tracking policy"
After you have carefully completed the on-line petition await the acknowledgement to your e-mail site.
Then click on that e-mail acknowledgement to validate your protest
I ASK THAT THOSE THAT CAN DO SO PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION TO OTHER NOTICE BOARD SITES, PASS TO ALL ON YOUR E-MAIL LISTS, ETC ETC ETC
MY THANKS

Not sure times past is to the point..we took instruction from our parents and if told not to chew the paint - we didn't. The removal of lead had more to do with paint-workers and it still kills people that sand old paint when restoring properties.
The ability to track people is an invasion of privacy, as there is no limit to where this info might end up. The Gov will sell your car-registration details for 2.50 , I understand- to benefit cowboy clampers. Recently a Gov Department managed to send Bank details and all manner of other info. "We'll get it back" they say, but if they don't have the info that would be far better. Even if you trust one Government, what happens when they change, or a disgruntled insider sells your travel details (through mistaken identity) and you end up in prison over the weekend? Are you so sure your spouce would stand by you?

There is no doubt we need better Public transport and shorter journeys to work, +fewer long-haul deliveries. But we also need trains/buses that will take your weekly shopping without charging an arm/leg to park in the station car-park - for that money you can go to Tesco and park for free.

Until we have a joined-up policy on Public transport (like spending money on it, rather than the London rip-off "Olympics" which will end up being 4x the original statement..IMHO..)...Those that will benefit should pay - =those properties near the East-End which have risen in value would be a good start. I live about as far as London is from the Olympic site so it's unlikely I shall go (not that I'm interested and can see endless replays on TV)...so why should I be expected to fund it (through Council Tax) when folk in Essex are likely to benefit far more and don't have to cross London to get there bright and early.
Even if we start now, do you think we shall achieve sufficient "Golds" to justify the fiasco - and today we hear there is a need for yet another Football stadium - why did we bother wasting money on the Dome..eh?

The black-box will add about 200 to the cost of a car/van and then about 2p/--1 a mile (or km!) adding 1000's to motoring costs. The charge will have little impact on those that need to travel to get to work (-and then on to an appointment) -it's true, pen-pushers may be tempted; - until they try to find a seat on the train. Where I live the rail network can't get the platform and trains at the same level - yet the station was built in the 1890's - you'd think getting the levels right was easy enough...but No! So the elderly and children have to jump the gap and risk falling.
Where is the logic in taking the train?
Most of us know the money is needed to bolster wasteful projects and endless Expert consultants - something that will continue to grow as long as there is another group of people able to be taxed for doing something that was free.
I don't buy the "..nothing to hide,.." arguement either, our forebears fought long and hard for our rights...let's at lest keep them intact.
The terrorist angle is too simple - terrorists don't register cars in their cell-name - they hire, or steel identity so no-one is the wiser, until too late. The most recent outrages were on Public Transport and I suspect those watching them on CCTV hadn't a clue what was unfolding....why would they?
Grrr!