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IN THE NEWS
Page 13
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Stuart Thomas gives us his regular round-up of the way the newspapers have covered the world of transport this week.
Picture St Albans and you don't tend to conjure up images of all-out anarchy. But the Guardian claims that is precisely what's going on in the shadow of the ancient abbey.
You see, when handled incorrectly, bureaucracy is a wonderful thing. In April Hertfordshire police stopped providing a countywide traffic warder service and dumped the job on the district councils. But St Albans claims it didn't have enough time to get a new regime in place, although we suspect it's probably quite hard to hunt down people willing to be hated by all and sundry. St Albanites have been quick to catch on and are now revelling in the sort of carefree, throw-your-pants-in-the-air mischievous behaviour normally the reserve of schoolboys or Timmy Mailett -they're parking wherever they like.
"There's no control, it's affecting trade," raged one trader, before sheepishly admitting to the paper that he too has been regularly indulging in the sport. Expect the looting to begin any time now...
The scratching of heads in newsrooms continues as "silly season" rolls on with scant hard news to report (physician heat thyselfEd). The Western Mail, however, had a clever ruse to milk dry research by the RAC Foundation claiming middle-lane hogs are wasting 700 miles N of our motorways. Driving It filled a half-page down simply by sending roads of one of its reporters despair on an 80-mile dash BES [3xer3 cicrarg 00..7 V., around Wales to "check out how some of the busiest roads measure up". Alas, it was the actions of truck drivers that filled much of the ViirsV2110p., space: from the artic in Riverside that jumped a red light to the truck that almost caused a crash on a roundabout just before the M4 and finally to the "slow-moving lorry" that created trouble in Aberdare. But even 800 vitriol-fuelled words didn't plug the gap. No, that was left to the all-important timeline of Aled Blake's 'adventure' and a map of his route. We'll be glad to see the back of these hot and crazy summer days...