Trax of my tyres (One)
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rime minister John Major spent a day at TRAX, the Oxfordshire motor project where youngsters are able to work on and drive cars legally, rather than borrowing their neighbours vehicles for a joyride. The project claims to have cut car crime in Oxfordshire, down by over 20% in the first quarter of 1994 compared with the same period in 1993. This is against a background of car crime rising by 1.8% in England and Wales.
In its first year of operation TRAX cost £120,000; small beer set against the £6.2m value of unrecovered stolen vehicles in Oxfordshire in 1992 alone. Courts can sentence repeated car crime offenders to a TRAX course, where they can vent their vehicle obsessions harmlessly. Sounds soft but the claimed success of the project is enough to make a prime minister grey with envy as he surveys rising vehicle crime elsewhere in the UK.