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council parking profit, how much do councils make from parking, RAC Foundation parking report.

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Council parking ‘profit’ to be £885m in 2018/19, says RAC Foundation

Councils in England are on course to generate a combined ‘profit’ of £885 million in 2018/19 from their parking operations – a 13% increase year-on-year.

11 Jul

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DfT announces RTA investigation trial and new breathalysers

Competition to bring a new mobile breathalyser to the market launched, while RAC Foundation asked to trial a new approach to road casualty investigations.

11 Jun

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Record number of parking tickets issued on private land

The number of tickets issued to drivers parking on private land has surged by almost a million in just 12 months to a new high, the RAC Foundation suggests.

1 May

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Record number of diesel cars now on Britain's roads, says RAC Foundation

New figures from the Department for Transport (DfT) reveal that the number of diesel cars licensed in Great Britain stood at 12.4 million at the end of 2017.

16 Apr

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Record number of parking tickets on private land, says RAC Foundation

Drivers were issued with a record number of parking tickets on private land in the third quarter of 2017-18, according to Government data.

1 Feb

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Private parking companies face tough new code of practice

Government ministers have thrown their weight behind a private parking members’ bill introduced by Sir Greg Knight MP.

30 Jan

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£5bn bill to fix thousands of ‘substandard’ council-maintained bridges

Almost 3,500 council-maintained road bridges in Great Britain are substandard, according to new research from the RAC Foundation.

22 Jan

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Police send record number of drivers on retraining courses

More than 1.4 million drivers, including more than one million caught for speeding, were sent to offender retraining courses in 2017 by the police.

16 Jan

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Fleets urged to contest charges as council parking ‘profits’ hit £819m

Fleets are being urged to proactively manage parking infringements after English councils made a record £819m from their parking operations in the past financial year.

21 Dec

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Mitsubishi Outlander stays top of the ultra-green car league

Analysis by the RAC Foundation of DVLA data shows there were 31,002 Outlanders on the road at the end of September 2017, up 1,594 on the previous quarter.

18 Dec

mobile phone penalties, driving while using mobile phone, SmartWitness mobile phone survey.

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Number of drivers caught using handheld phone falls by 11%

The number of drivers caught using a handheld phone while driving fell by 11% in the three months after the introduction of tougher penalties compared to three months before, new data seen by the RAC shows.

4 Dec

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Scrappage schemes will get us nowhere, warns RAC Foundation

Scrappage schemes will not get us any further in the fight against pollutants, RAC Foundation research suggests.

21 Nov

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Public nervous about autonomous cars taking control from drivers

Half (50%) of Britons are concerned about future driver-assistance technologies taking too much control away from the driver.

4 Oct

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Public charge points put electric car revolution at risk, says RAC Foundation

Without widespread, reliable and simple-to-use charge points the practicalities of ‘filling up’ electric cars could limit their mass-market appeal.

4 Oct

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Public charge points put EV revolution at risk

The practicalities of ‘filling up’ electric cars could limit the mass-market appeal of ultra-green vehicles, says the RAC Foundation.

28 Sept

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UK unleaded petrol price set to overtake diesel after Houston flooding

The RAC is warning drivers to expect a hike in unleaded petrol prices on the forecourt in the coming days, largely as a result of Storm Harvey.

4 Sept

Gergely Raccuja, 2017 Wolfson Economics Prize.

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Road-user charging proposal wins 2017 Wolfson Economics Prize

A recent graduate from UCL has won the 2017 Wolfson Economics Prize, including £250,000, after arguing motorists should pay to use roads on a per mile basis.

18 Jul

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Government publishes £6.1bn programme of upgrades to major roads and motorways

Transport minister Jesse Norman has unveiled a £6.1 billion programme of road improvements as part of the government’s £23bn upgrade to the road network in England.

30 Jun