motoring law change ideas

The UK public have submitted 525 law change ideas relating to motoring.

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10 Comments Mobility Allowance
160 Comments Exhaust pipe muffler Ban loud vehicle exhaust modification

Ban people modifying their cars and bikes to have louder exhausts than the ones they come with
3 Comments Jeremy Clarkson Repeal Jeremy Clarkson

The BBC is funded by a television tax, which inflict grossly overpaid state 'entertainers'
2 Comments TINTED MOTORCYCLE HELMET MAKE TINTED MOTORCYCLE HELMET VISORS LEGAL
2 Comments bus lane Remove the ambiguity re bank holiday use of bus lanes
Complex road sign Less pointless roadsigns
5 Comments RAISE MOTORWAY UPPER SPEED LIMIT
1 Comment Road Tax-Discs Abolish Car Tax and put on Fuel
Review Speeding Laws

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160 Comments Exhaust pipe muffler Ban loud vehicle exhaust modification
10 Comments disabled parking Mobility Allowance

Lmit one vehicle to a  family of 2 when  each person  is in receipt
7 Comments segways Legalize Segways, Go-Peds and other personal electric transporters Please update outdated and archaic statutes to permit new electric vehicles to be ridden on the road
6 Comments m1 motorway Remove restrictions on ‘undertaking’ on motorways
5 Comments road traffic accident Stop police closing roads to investigate accidents.
5 Comments classic car Reinstate Rolling Historic Road Tax
5 Comments RAISE MOTORWAY UPPER SPEED LIMIT
4 Comments kit car No IVA/SVA for kit cars
4 Comments loud car exhaust Ban loud exhausts from use on public roads
4 Comments hazard perception test Remove the Hazard Perception Test element of driver training.
3 Comments Ban Xenon Headlights on new cars

Latest ideas

10 Comments disabled parking Mobility Allowance

Lmit one vehicle to a  family of 2 when  each person  is in receipt
Cutting down on the number of road users

This is going to sound a bit draconian and I can hardly believe I'm about to write this. T
Replace Speed Cameras with ANPR Cameras

With some authorties removing speed cameras altogether perhaps a better solution would be to c
1 Comment Switch the speed-limits on roads to metric ASAP. Delaying is starting to cost money…

It's well overdue that an "officially metric" country such as ours should demons
Coordination of roadworks
Freeways in town and cities
Speeding up Traffic Flow
Remove speed limits on motorways
4 Comments No IVA/SVA for kit cars
1 Comment Use dipped headlights!
Car Insurance For Young Or Inexperienced Drivers
Young drivers with modified cars driving dangerously
Wheel Clamping – Repeal Ban Before it damages the government and the people
Remove the 40mph rule for lorries
Peak Hours Congestion
National no car day
Restrict the cars new drivers can own
Don’t scrap clamping on private land, regulate it and the release fees
Driving licence points
Motorway congestion
Speed Limits
History and Highways
Increase time between MoT tests
Vehicle licensing and drivers licenses – removal of the need for paper counterparts
Reduce the cost of road signage
CLAMPING BAN OR REGULATE?
2 Comments Everyone should pass the same HGV test to get Licence to drive on UK roads.
Get rid of laws which specify what is dangerous driving
Restoration of sense to Highway Code
Clamp Gypsy Vehicles that tresspass on Private/Goverment Land
Driving licence points
Removal of police power to sieze vehicles used off road
Motorway speed limits – review and increase or eliminate altogether.
Abolish the law that requires road signs to be illuminated
Automate the Dartford Tolls to the Congestion Charge Standard
The Medway Act 2001. discriminates against medway residents.
Presumption of innocence with vehicle offences
TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON MOTORWAYS
New teenage drivers should have their driving freedom limited
Reform ASBO’s but don’t get rid of them!
Freedom from Police Brutality
1 Comment Data Protection and DVLA
Coalition’s internet ‘consultation’ sham as ministers reject every single suggestion
Extended role for traffic wardens
Grandfather rights
Fuel Duty Reform
Allow the Severn Bridge Payment by Credit Card
Freedom?
Review of Graduated Speed Restrictions required
Amend the destination for revenue from speed cameras
Removal of the 70 mph motorway limit
only insuring the car, not just the driver
Stop persecuting motorists
DEATH BY CARELESS DRIVING
Repeal / Review Speeding Law
Remove ALL controlled parking zones
2 Comments Ban private parking companies.
Freedom to oppose Traffic Regulation Orders and their proposals without resonable notice.
Road Traffic Act 1991 – partial repeal
Repeal the punitive taxation on 4×4 wheel drive vehicles
Official or company cars
drink driving laws
Repeal or part repeal Dartford Crossing Tolls
DVLA data: stop misuse
Remove zig-zag lines from pedestrian crossings and create more parking spaces
A Consistent National Parking Policy For Motorcyclists
Let us make left turns on red lights
Repeal the law against turning left on a red light if safe to do so
2 Comments Repeal the overtaking on the left motoring law
Remove councils and transport for london control of local road
Don’t loose NCD if hit by uninsured
How to reform the foreign aid to better help the third world develop, increase food security, reduce CO2, increase forest cover in the UK and build cheap and affordable houses for British people.
Private traffic wardens
Pavement Parking
Wheel clamping – make it illegal
1 Comment Make Traffic Laws Apply to Cyclists.
Proportional Fines – Fairness
Make Motoring fines proportional to Income
STOP PENALISING 4 X 4 DRIVERS WHO LIVE IN RURAL LOCATIONS
Remove alarm when vehicles are reversing
Road Tax and MOT
Replace default 60mph limit by 50mph
remove points for speeding
7 Comments Legalize Segways, Go-Peds and other personal electric transporters
Shame bad drivers. Reward good ones
Stop all Road tolls
Stop driving on the left hand-side
Vignette for Foreign drivers on our Roads.
Canturbury Aires
Drink Driving
1 Comment motorhome stopovers
simple law
1 Comment Switch the white-on-brown “tourism” roadsigns to metric
Britain is noxious for motorhomers.
All Way Stop At Road Junctions
Stop Painting Roads
Street web cams
Motorists speeding
Ring Fence Motoring Taxes
Don’t Fine Speeders – Impound their Cars !
Allow motorway traffic to pass on either side of vehicles in front
Licence Plates should show home location
Cars & The Ozone
Abolish offence of not naming who was driving a vehicle
Penalty for no insurance
Scrap VED and introduce a dual MOT & insurance disc
Revenue raised from speed cameras and parking fines
Right to retreads
no horse power!
Make uninsured drivers pay.
Don’t like the smoking ban? You know where the door is.
Fixed price Car Insurance as incentive for Teenagers
1 Comment Mark All Bridge Heights in Metres
Switch off Motorway Lighting in Summer Months
Put Traffic Lights on flashing amber at night
1 Comment No Licence Vehicles
Set us Free
Legalising Cannabis….No!..Not yet without further study of its effects whilst driving.
Get former drink drivers off the DNA database
Driving Licences – not ID Cards
Use of mobile phones in cars
Towing of Trailers
2 Comments Reduce road tax for historic cars to 25 years
Clarify Drink/Drive Alcohol Limits
1 Comment Oversized Exhausts
speed restrictions
Car Tax Discs Scrapped for MOT discs
CARAVAN Stabilisers to be mandated.
Category D1 to be included on a standard driving licence
Unneccesary Closure of Roads
BAN TASER WEAPONS IN USE BY THE POLICE
Speed limit signs to be placed at least 20m from any junction
Traffic lights – abolish “Red and Amber”
Let them be splashed
Abolish the National Speed Limit
REmove useless paper work when buying a new numbr plate
Make motorist automaticaly liable for collisions with cyclists/pedestrians
Raise motorway speed limits
Civil Enforcement Officers
Remove road tax
Increase Speed limit on the motorway
Why do we need Tax Discs on cars?
Simplify the HGV Tacho Laws. Remove Highways Agency Cars
Modernise our Speed Limits
Revise the driving test to improve the motorway network
Generate Revenue by putting Advertisement Boards on Motorways/Other Roads
160 Comments Ban loud vehicle exhaust modification
speeding
Abolish Road Fund Licence
1 Comment Repeal section of NERC act that downgred RUPPs
Speed Limits – signage and road markings
Highways Traffic Officers
Allow people to decide whether they want to wear a seat belt or crash helmet.
Limit pedestrian crossings
1 Comment Traffic Camera Useage is Out of Control and all about Revenue not Safety
Uninsured Drivers and the chaos they cause
Remove the need for third party car insurance
SORN
1 Comment No Need to Renew Driving Licence Photo every 10 years
RING-FENCE FUNDING FOR THE POLICE
Simplification of speed limits
Speed Cameras should be eliminated or used only in special circumstances.
Abolition of ‘speed calming’ measures
Legalise walking and cycling through (some) red lights
Stop reducing speed limits to quite inappropriate levels
Remove the ability of councils to go against the wishes of the majority to satisfy their twisted ideologies
Ban lorries from using the fast lane
Wheel clamping should be made illegal
Using CCTV to catch motoring offences
reduce speed limit to 50 mph on all lanes of motorways
Checks on Parents driving children
1 Comment The MOT Test
Tax Caravans and require they stop every 3 miles
Moratorium on Welsh road improvement schemes
1 Comment Modify Road Tax and Motor Insurance
Remove and destroy for ever the ridiculous smiley face road signs… WE ARE NOT PLAYSCHOOL CHILDREN!!!
2 Comments Raise Motorway Speed Limit to 100MPH & Scrap 20 MPH Zones
Abolish Road Fund Tax
1 Comment Tax Foreign Vehicle’s on our roads.
Reduce the requirements for micro-vehicles
Reduce the speed limit on motorways
Allow Parking on Verges/footpaths generally
Remove tax on vans for field service workers.
Create a new motoring offense of not driving in the left lane whenever possible eliminating hogging the middle and fast lane s
Create a new motoring offense of not driving in the left lane whenever possible eliminating hogging the middle and fast lane s
creating jobs
“Secret Spotters” to catch tailgating and dangerous driving
Remove councils’ right to tax roadside parking
Removal of death by dangerous driving
BAN CARAVANS FROM UK ROADS
1 Comment RESTRICTIONS ON WHEN LORRIES CAN USE MOTORWAYS
Scrap Road Tax – add to fuel duty
3 Comments Repeal Jeremy Clarkson
24Hr working to avoid disruption.
hospital car parking charges
wheel clamping
Standardised road infrastructure
RAISE MOTORWAY SPEED LIMIT
Stop ‘not displaying car tax disc’ being an offence if you have paid online
Stop insured drivers having to pay for uninsured drivers
Make speed camera photo’s available
Introduce an Motorway Card
Increase National Speed Limit To 80MPH!
changing of sentencing when someone killed on roads
Repeal the Digital Economy Act (ending of FM and medium wave radio )
Remove need for over 70’s to renew Driving Licence every 3 years to
Highways agency
change sentencing for driving whilst using mobile phone
Derivative Traffic Controls
traffic wardens
Abolish “Community Speedwatch” schemes
Mandatory Annual Eye Tests For All Drivers ?
1 Comment clean up our roads by removing rediculously excessive road markings
Removing Camera’s
Motoring
HISTORIC VEHICLE VED DISC DISPLAY
1 Comment Speed related speeding fines
Make the police show the evidence of speeding offense.
Speed cameras.
50MPH for Lorries
1 Comment Amend Vehicle Excise and Registration Act & Regulations
Ban Average-Speed Cameras
Make the Highways Agency 4x4s be in a different colour to Police Patrols!
REDUCE SPEED LIMIT TO 50 MPH
stealth tax parking meters
Stop the DVLA from crushing cars if people don’t pay road tax
Road Tunnel & Bridge Tolls
Community speedwatch
Driving license renewal
Increase motorway speed limits to 80 or 90mph
Abolish SORN
2 Comments Remove the rediculous restriction on right handed sidecars
Rationalising Road and Street Signs, and Traffic Lights
Remove Right Hand Sidecar Ban
Investigation versus Traffic Delay.
Motoring accident statistics
Investigation versus Traffic Delay.
Reduce Fuel Duty and Introduce Road Charging instead
Fuel Duty Inflation link
Be fair to motorists
Be fair to motorists
Be fair to motorists
Stop Automatically Fining Us!
1 Comment Allow 30mph speed limit signs on lit streets
Natural Environment & Rural Communities Act 2006
Abolish car tax
2 Comments Compensate motorists who successful appeal parking tickets
Repeal the Trainee Driving Instructors Licence Act
Repel Motorcycle Helmet Law
Powers of Court Sentencing Act 2000.
Less duplication of traffic lights
Remove speeding loopholes and increase sentences
Fairer vehicle tax (VED) bands
Simplifying Driving Licences
Placement of Speed Limit Signs
Dismiss all suggestions of road charging
End Multi-Agency Check Points
Car speed limiters replace speeding fines
1 Comment Abolish requirement to pay to renew driving licence every 10 years
Scrap Road Tax
TAX vechicles over 2kcc lots and reduce max speed to 60
2 Comments MAKE TINTED MOTORCYCLE HELMET VISORS LEGAL
Remove need for annual renewal or car house and other insurance
2 Comments Remove the 25Kw restriction for motorcyclists under 21
Get rid of speed cameras
Traffic Lights – Turn left on Red
Segway Personal Transporter – is the future!
remove strict rules governing use of mini buses – stems from EU Directive 2003/20/EC
Penalise Companies as well as HGV Drivers
1 Comment Use of enclosed speed camera vans
No to compulsory use of motorcycle helmets
Subsidise public transport. Trains, buses.
Car number plates
1 Comment Remove All Non Safety Related Yellow Lines
5 Comments Stop police closing roads to investigate accidents.
Repeal the Railways unlimited priority over Roads
use the Swiss system
2 Comments Remove the ambiguity re bank holiday use of bus lanes
Removal of Laws for Personal Safety for Over 18’s
Scrap snapshot speed cameras.
Restore Historic Vehicle 25 year rule.
All left turns on red traffic lights
Mobile phone use
1 Comment Abolish the paper “counterpart” driving licence
Government to list 5 existing laws per day on YF for public comment
Allow councils to control traffic flow
Make the photo on the driving licence optional
Ellimination of all motor vehicles from cities centres.
4 Comments Remove the Hazard Perception Test element of driver training.
Abolish taxes on compulsory products – eg car insurance
Replace national speed limit signs with a normal speed sign
Speed Limits – Restore The 85th Percentile Rule
2 Comments Ban HGV vehicles from using the outer 2 lanes on 4 lane motorways
Remove the restriction of overtaking on the right on motorways
Motorway Hard Shoulder Exit
Outlaw toll roads and toll bridges
3 Comments Ban Xenon Headlights on new cars
Remove the 2 year limit on the CBT Certificate
Free the roads
Fix Britains traffic problems (HOWTO).
Scrap CCTV cars
wheel clamping
Repeal car seat law – all children under 12 needing to be in a proper car seat
Regular Mandatory Sight Examinations for all Drivers
Remove the need to submit receipts for fuel expenses
Repeal the law setting a limit on blood alcohol level for motorists
1 Comment Allow Motorcycles to use Bus Lanes
1 Comment Repeal the law requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets
Repeal the law requiring motorists to wear seatbelts
scrap penalty for motorists refusing to incriminate themselves
Make MoT tests every two years for newer cars.
Cycle Paths
Enforcing speed limits
Scrap differential speed limits for goods vehicles
enforce 30 mph with average speed cameras
Draconian TFL Parking Penalties
48HR TO PAY CONGESTION CHARGE
Motoring
Police abusing their powers
1 Comment OAP’s to retake Driving Test.
Fixed penalty versus challenged case penalties .
make drink driving, a driving offence and not a criminal offence.
Remove speed humps
When delayed by roadworks people should be compansated by the government.
Motorcycle speed limits
Abolition of SORN and preferably also the TAX disc
FREE UP M25 CAR PARK
Less pointless roadsigns
5 Comments RAISE MOTORWAY UPPER SPEED LIMIT
Remove speed limits on most roads except 20mph and less.
The Cost of Maintaining the Road Network
Simplify drivers licencing and bring vehicle classes in line with MOT and Road Tax classes
Civilian Video Enforcement
Driving while unfit to do so
Raise the minimum driving age to 18 (or 21)
Ban HGVs overtaking up a hill
1 Comment abolish the trailer test
1 Comment Abolish the Datford crossing toll
Motorway Car Sharing Parking Areas to Reduce Congestion
The Motorcycle Helmet Law.
Compel drivers to make way for emergency vehicles even if they are at a red light.
Ringfence motoring taxation for transport
Truck drivers
Scrap the Road Fund Licence
fuel and driving licence
Driving whilst using mobile phone
Undertaking
Car Park Pay and Display Fines
20MPH Speed Limit around schools when children are present
Abolish the technology that enables tracking citizens’ movements nationwide
Give cycles more space
End the School Run Traffic Chaos Nightmare
Give cycles more space
Driving and alcohol limits
Driving at 70
Abolish the car tax by putting the cost on a new vehicle.
Make basic 3rd party car insurance part of the road tax or fuel duty
Display of Tax disc in vehicles.
Stop private firms using Blue Flashing Lights, Sirens and Battenberg Liveries etc on their vehicles
Make the speeding laws work FOR road safety
Pilot study: replace traffic light systems with roundabouts
Less legislation for powered cycles.
Remove Fixed Speed Cameras.
Stop the SCAM that is VAT on Vehicle Fuel Duty
Scrap the “failure to produce” law
Repeal Statutory Off-Road Notification (SORN)
Change the rules on SORN vehicles
Turn off Traffic Lights 10pm – 6am
Ban Car Clampers (Scotland already has)
Stop 4×4 prejudice
1 Comment Undertaking on Motorways and Dual Carriageways
Scrap Vehicle Excise Duty (often known as Road Tax)
Improve Traffic light arrangements
Ban the fitting of “BLUE” LED side lights to private vehicles
Simplify Categorisation of Driving Offences
Allow undertaking on Motorways
Young drivers to be banned from driving High performance vehicles
Scrap jail sentence for death by careless driving
Remove the need of the Road Tax Disc
DONT JAIL PEOPLE JUST FOR SPEEDING.
Common sense traffic wardens
Introduce a Minimum Speed Limit on Motorways & Dual Carriageways
DVLA Fees
Allow road users to pass red lights if the way ahead is clear
Remove speed-limiters from coaches
Remove exemptions for Sikhs not to wear motorcycle helmets.
Stop the conviction of motorists by Laser (Lidar) based speed enforcement
5 Comments Reinstate Rolling Historic Road Tax
Turn Left at Red Lights
Road Tax on foreign cars and Visas for visiting foreigners
Ban drink driving
Highway Code
Driving Test Change
2 Comments Stop using CCTV cameras for traffic enforcement
Restore the need to prove who committed a motoring offence
Repeal the law (Police Reform 2002) which permits the police to seize your vehicle (under section 59) without any evidence of wrongdoing and without any recourse to the courts
Motorist Freedom
Minimum Speed Limits to be introduced on motorways
20mph zones
Increase motorway speed after 7PM
Noise Polution from Cars
Motoring (mostly speed) offenses – more police power + fairness
Talking on a Mobile Phone whilst driving
Driver Speed Awareness course
Overhaul Speeding Fines
Mandatory Driver Refresher Training
1 Comment Increase the National Speed Limit to 80mph on Motorways
Display Current Speed Limit on Speed Cameras
Remove all traffic lights, zebra crossings and street furniture
Increase but police motorway speed limits
Road Safety – Liberate us from the recent imposition of “Daylight Running Lights”
Introduce Toll Roads
Fuel brands on motorway service area signs
Allow Car Parking for 2 minutes on single yellow lines
Restore the right not to incriminate yourself – speed cameras
1 Comment Remove the ‘broken white line’ clause of Highway code 130
Merge driving with a mobile phone with other driving offences.
Remove law on use of mobile telephones in cars
Repeal the Helmet Law
Remove Speed Cameras
Replace the RFL and display disc with an MOT Pass disc.
Tax Caravans
Eradicate speed cameras – introduce speed governors
7500kg vehicles
Allow left turn through red light when noone present
Town centre free parking for 20 mins
Rather Silly Motorcycle Visor Regulations
1 Comment Drivers CPC
Restore the presumption of innocense in all legislation relating to motoring
2 Comments Re-introduce rolling tax exemption for classic vehicles
Abolish Road Fund Licence
Remove the need for catalytic converters in cars
Legalise Tinted Motorcycle Helmet Visors
Amend Speed Limits
1 Comment Re-introduce rolling tax exemption for classic vehicles
A Complete Rethink Of The Speed Limit System
Amend speed limits
Abolish the requirement for motorcycles to display a tax disc.
Abolition of all statutory speed limits, replacing these with increased penalties and prosecutions for reckless or dangerous driving
Retake driving test after serious accident.
Councils forced to impose unnecessary speed limits
Wheel Clamps
Motorway Yobs Bombard Drivers With Rocks
Remove discrimination towards diabetic drivers
Remove discrimination towards diabetic drivers
Remove the Toll Bridge on the M4 Severn Bridge
Seatbelt law
HGV speed restrictions on A roads
Full review of current 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 & 70mph speed limits
Scrap Motorway speed limit for cars.
Reduce the powers of VOSA
Road traffic law stops firefighters checking hydrants
Outlaw “Average Speed Cameras”
Stop the loud backing up beeping on utility vehicles
Tidy Up Speed Limits
LEFT turn on RED (where have the threads gone?)
2 Comments Historic Vehicle Tax needs reviewing!
Speed camera placement
motoring
Yellow Lines
motoring
Increase motorway speed limit to 80MPH after 7PM
Tidy Up Speed Limits
Ban Drivers from Smoking at the wheel
ABOLISH ROAD TAX –
1 Comment Remove Fine For Not Displaying Tax Disc
Speeding points review
SAVE Billions Building ever widening motorways!
Scrap Nottingham’s Work Place Parking Levy
Use of Black Visors on Crash Helmets
Use of Black Visors on Crash Helmets
remove maximum speed limits on motorways
Relax rules on traffic calming lighting
6 Comments Remove restrictions on ‘undertaking’ on motorways
Remove the right of councils to put obstacles in roads designed to curb speeding.
Abolish requirement to present documents when ordering a numberplate
CAR CLAMPING – Stop labour’s legalised blackmail racket!
Prevent deliberate dangerous road design
2 Comments Abolish the SORN system
Scrap the Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN) legislation
New motorists and young drivers driving powerful vehicles
4 Comments Ban loud exhausts from use on public roads
100 mb broadband minimum
Lane hogging
Stop Road Tax
Speeding – Introduce Two-Tier (advanced) licence
Take motorbikes out of bike lanes in London
Remove the RFL disk
Postal Speeding Tickets
Tougher penalties for drink driving offences.
Reduce the amount of road cones
Improve road efficiency by legalising undertaking
parking on pavements
Tax on petrol prices!
Not Guilty Court Costs !
Improve Driving Skills
Exemption from LEZ for private HGV’s
Speed limits
Motoring
1 Comment Get rid of speed bumps and cameras
Regulate ANPR and end general surveillance of all motorists
Road tax for larger cars
Motorcycle Helmet Law
Use of Mobile Phones in Vehicles
Reintroduce the HORT/1 “Producer”
Drivers CPC regulations
Motorcycling costs should be reduced
inspect and tax foreign lorries prior to entry to the UK
1 Comment Curtail the power of the DVLA
Eating whilst driving
Remove unnecessary undertaking laws to avoid lane misuse
Relax MOT regulations
1 Comment Remove speed humps from roads
Crash helmet laws should be repealed
1 Comment Abolish Car Tax and put on Fuel
License wheel-clampers
Abolish road tax
NERC legislation
1 Comment Remove all speed limits on motorways
BAN CLAMPING
Turn Left on Red
Motoring offences increase in fines for court hearing
Speed Cameras
Review Speeding Laws
towing allowances on post 1997 driving licences

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