Repeated pledges to drive car use down by driving its cost up are stillborn It is billed as the last weekend of summer but, as this one reminded us, just as often the August bank holiday feels like the start of autumn. So perhaps, rather than dwell on the weather, it should be rebranded as the festival of motorists. From Coventry to Ormskirk, connoisseurs tuned into the throb of classic cylinders, the M5 was thick with cars and caravans as families fled the Cornish rain and, on B roads in between, others tootled in search of the British Arcadia first promised in the Shell guides 70 years ago. The August bank holiday is the weekend when about half of all Britain's car owners get behind the wheel, the peak of the year for the noisy opponents of road pricing, tolls, the fuel price escalator and speed cameras, who together amount to one of the largest and most powerful groups politicians face – the motoring lobby. See full Article.
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