One of Europe’s leading car hire firms has announced that any customers affected by a possible strike by BAA workers will be able to cancel their car rental bookings without incurring a penalty. Sixt rent a car made the announcement at the end of last week after airport workers voted by 3 to 1 in [...]

Avenues of trees may be an environmentally friendly way of slowing speeding motorists, according to a recent study. Norfolk County Council has planted over 200 trees on roads leading into villages which are known to have speeding problems. The idea is that as motorists drive down the approach roads, their perception of speed increases because [...]

New ‘Shared Space’ initiatives in town-centres across the country could see traffic lights removed to cut delays, improve the flow of traffic and save money. For decades town councils have done their best to separate traffic from pedestrians. However, the Shared Space idea aims to undo all this by throwing the two back together.
The idea [...]

Increasing budget cuts, as well as research which shows that speed cameras may actually cause drivers to lose concentration as they pass the devices, is causing many county councils across the UK to question the usefulness of roadside speed-traps. Oxfordshire recently decided to switch off camera equipment in a number of locations due to financial [...]

Concerns have been raised by the Office of Fair Trading over the acquisition of Streetcar, the British car club, by US rivals Zipcar. The deal was agreed last April and was worth £32 million. The OFT is worried that the deal will result in less competition in a nascent, but potentially huge, section of the [...]

In a move to improve the service it offers its customers Avis has announced that it will be introducing its home delivery and collection service throughout the capital. The introduction of the service to various areas of London follows the successful trial of the initiative in other areas of the UK.
Avis customers who do not [...]

Leading UK car rental firm, Europcar, has teamed up with some of the country’s foremost food experts to produce a culinary guide for motorists who are fed up of the usual fare offered at motorway service stations. In a recent survey, Europcar found that 95 per cent of drivers thought the choice, quality and price [...]

Campaigners wishing to see speed cameras removed from the roads of Britain have been given some justification for their cause by new research which reveals that speed traps may have been responsible for thousands of accidents. Of the 2.7 million collisions recorded since speed cameras were introduced in 2001, it is estimated that 27,900 were [...]

AXA has launched a campaign to promote courteous behaviour on the UK roads. The insurer recently conducted an independent survey which suggested that lives, as well as hundreds of millions of pounds, could be saved each year if drivers found ways to control their anger and aggression.
Of the 222,100 accidents which occur each year on [...]

Drivers who speed in the Greater London area are far more likely to be caught by a speed camera than anywhere else in the country, according to a study by GPS data providers: RoadPilot. Apparently the capital has 16 per cent of all the roadside cameras in the country, which means it has more cameras [...]