Traffic commissioners ‘need proper funding’
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By Roger Brown
SENIOR TRAFFIC commissioner (TC) Beverley Bell said she and her colleagues must continue to be given adequate resources to do their job, but that there should be no O-licence fee increase to fund this.
In the TCs’ annual report for April 2011 to March 2012, Bell said she would be holding talks with Vosa over the coming months to ensure that TCs continue to be properly resourced and financed.
“TCs can only be effective if we have the proper resources available to us, and this is a matter that has taxed me considerably over the past 12 months,” she said.
“We understand we are in difficult economic times and remind ourselves that our work is paid for by operators – so we would not advocate a fee increase.
“But we are also administered by Vosa and there is consequently a lot that Vosa can do to support TCs in their work.
“I look forward to working on behalf of TCs with [Vosa chief executive officer] Alastair Peoples and his board over the coming year to ensure that we are properly resourced and financed, for without this we cannot be effective.”