----- Original Message ----- From: "TREVOR BURRIDGE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 8:21 AM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Proposed new car tax (OT) ON Line Petitions
> Radio Reports on BBC today were suggesting that the site has now crashed. > > After hearing the comments of senior Government Officials referring to the > instigator of this idea (No10 on line Petitions) as a "pratt" I wonder if > this is a little of the Developer faced with a Grade ll listed building > 'accidentally knocking it down. > I heard that at one point it was getting 3 signatures / sec. Perhaps that increased beyond the capabilities of the hardware it's running on... Current govt. line seems to be along the lines of: "Of course we never wanted to track everybody" - must reckon most people don't know about ANPR. "Maybe since there is so much opposition we'll only do it in cities. "- Probably the original intention - standard tactic to announce hugely excessive plan and then scale it back to the original plan as a big concession to public opinion; should happen with the DEFRA cuts at some stage. What happens when the city charge drives lots of traffic onto the alternative "rural" road, causing worse congestion? -- Niall
