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• Police in the West Midlands have spent £12,000 to fit video equipment in three Ford Sierras and a Jaguar, which will be used to crack down on dangerous drivers, The unmarked cars will film examples of bad driving before stopping offending motorists. Officers will then be able to replay the films on monitors in the cars, so offending drivers can be shown what they were doing wrong.
• Eduardo Pena, the EEC's director general for transport, will be guest speaker at next year's RHA TipCon lunch in Harrogate on Friday 29 April. Cabotage will be top of the agenda during the discussions which precede the lunch.
• The Merseyside Chamber of Commerce and Industry says the Government must accept responsibility for the financial crisis which is about to envelop the Mersey Tunnel. The capital debt on the tunnel now stands at 115 million and is rising, as interest charges on the debt continue to outweigh income. The tunnel operator, the Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority, says massive toll increases seem to be inevitable.
• The Department of Transport has announced that it will oppose an EEC Directive calling for a minimum tyre tread depth of 1.6mm. The department says a 1.6mm tread depth over the entire tread surface would not result in any significant road safety benefits, but it would involve operators in unnecessary additional expenditure. The National Tyre Distributors Association says it is "baffled" by the DTp's attitude, as wet weather braking would definitely be improved by going to a 1.6mm minimum.