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Here it is then, and it didn't take long to come up with. It's quite possible to see pretty much every single one of the measures listed below on a single journey. It's a long list, as you'd expect, but there are so many anti-motorist measures that I've probably missed at least one of them out.

If you support the things on this list, you're anti-motorist. Is there any point in continuing to pretend otherwise?

=95	Speed cameras (and intimidation/underhandedness/deceit towards those who are unfairly prosecuted and/or are entitled to refunds/ compensation) =95	Unnecessarily low speed limits =95	Unnecessary traffic lights =95	Badly-phased traffic lights =95	The lack of a legal defence for drivers who are prosecuted for going through red lights in order to allow emergency vehicles behind to get through =95	=93Congestion=94 taxes (or are they =93green=94 taxes? Or is it just a= ny excuse to take money from motorists?) =95	Local and national policy to deliberately cause congestion for motorists (so that it can be =93solved=94 with =93congestion=94 taxes) =95	Lane theft (e.g. unnecessary bus/cycle lanes, pointless hatching, other spiteful removal of perfectly good roadspace) =95	Unnecessary highway obstructions (e.g. maliciously filled-in bus stops, central islands where no-one would need to cross, chicanes which actually increase accidents, pavement build-outs where there is already quite enough pavement, etc) =95	Speed humps =95	Council apathy towards repairing potholes etc (and who cares if cyclists are also put at risk? Irritating motorists, and preferably busting their suspension etc, is the top priority) =95	Closing off the ends of roads, making roads one-way unnecessarily, etc =95	Unnecessarily long road closures after accidents =95	Unnecessarily long and deliberately uncoordinated/inefficient roadworks, in order to delay/frustrate motorists and inflict unnecessarily low speed limits on motorways/dual carriageways (even at times when there are no workmen), almost always backed up by cameras, despite it having been shown that cameras increase accidents in such cases =95	Huge =93green=94 VED and petrol duty increases =95	The =93road user hierarchy=94 (thankfully now consigned to history, now that London has a mayor who is not anti-motorist...and doesn=92t Spindrift just hate that?) =95	=93Decriminalised=94 parking enforcement (including its blatant abuse b= y councils and their contractors to make profit, abuse of CCTV to issue PCNs for =93contraventions=94 which often no other road user even sees let alone is affected by, the fact that there is no disincentive for councils to issue invalid tickets and hope that the victim just pays up, the fact that those who are found to have been unfairly ticketed are not automatically refunded, etc) =95	Unnecessary double and single yellow lines =95	Often unnecessary =93residents=92 parking=94 schemes where residents ar= e overcharged/not given sufficient visitors=92 permits/generally inconvenienced as much as possible by the council (if there weren=92t so many unnecessary yellow lines in the first place, many parking problems would disappear for residents and commuters alike) =95	Extremely expensive parking meters and car parks =95	Many other pointless and spiteful restrictions on parking =95	Requirements for developers to provide insufficient parking spaces for new flats etc =95	The fact that clamping is still legal in England and Wales =95	Toll bridges/crossings, even when the bridge/crossing in question has long since been paid for =95	Filling in of pedestrian subways so as to deliberately bring pedestrians and traffic into conflict (thereby causing traffic to stop for no reason, and putting pedestrians in unnecessary danger...but who cares as long as the motorist scum are inconvenienced, eh?) =95	Continued refusal to consider any safety-related, environmental or congestion-solving measures which would make things easier, rather than harder, for motorists

And guess what? The reprehensible and rightly loathed Chapman supports every single one of the above. Yet still he maintains this absurd denial that he=92s anti-motorist. Oh well, if he wants to make himself look like the lying twat that he is, I guess I shouldn=92t really complain.