Why is it that councils insist on treating the road user like they were the enemy. Inevitably it gets peoples' back up and in a situation like that you are never going to get anywhere in changing attitudes.

Cameras, parking restrictions, bus lanes, red lights all make the road user feel like the enemy.

That's why the road user no longer trusts any new initiative, such as road tolls.

In any case, most of the people behind law enforcement, or traffic management are road users too. Why not change the attitude to be on side together?

It's perhaps appropriate that Halloween should bring some news of movement on Aberdeen's very own horror story - "The Haudagain Roundabout". The bad news is that the next stage of the process - a public consulation - has been delayed until 2008. The good news? Well it just seems that the penny may have dropped. Sticking plaster is not a solution. Read More...

The Evening Express reports that Aberdeen City Council has put forward plans to take over the enforcement of Aberdeen's bus lanes. Currently there are only eight bus-lane cameras in the city, but if this plan was to proceed the number could be increased. Read More...

A trip to Switzerland shows how it should be done. Read More...

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The publication today of the draft orders for the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route, gives a clearer picture of the final road due for completion in 2012. Read More...

The consultation over improvements to the notorious Haudagain junction (where three trunk roads and the main north route into Aberdeen city centre converge) is to be postponed in the light of the Scottish Executive Reporters' recommendation that plans for a third bridge over the Don be shelved. Read More...

A report from the Scottish Executive Reporters, following last year's inquiry in the Local Plan 'Green Spaces - New Places', recommends that the proposed Third Don Crossing “should not be pursued”. Read More...

Zero emission, production-ready cars are driving on the roads of the UK right now and will be coming to a car showroom near you soon.

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Solutions for the notorious Haudagain junction of three trunk roads and the main route into Aberdeen are due to be reported on by the autumn.

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Aberdeen is the second most car-friendly city in the UK, behind Dundee, according to a survey by Virgin Money. Read More...

So, Edinburgh's tram system is to get the go-ahead. The new SNP Scottish Government were heavily outvoted when they sought to ditch the controversial £490 million tram scheme for the capital.

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The announcement by the Minister for Transport, Stewart Stevenson, that the completion of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) would not now be until 2012 is extremely disappointing. But it is not surprising. Read More...

There have been suggestions (probably mischievous) that the Scottish Government is planning to ditch the massively expensive plans for trams and a rail link to Edinburgh Airport in favour of dualling the A9 road to Inverness. No doubt these rumours have been orchestrated to try and create conflict. Read More...