Comment

Representation ID: 11169

Received: 24/09/2021

Respondent: Mr Richard Carter

Passing legislation that requires summer tyres to be replaced with all season/all year or stud-less winter tyres during the winter months would:
Improve road safety, reduce the number of accidents and save lives;
Lower insurance premiums;
Reduce the burden on the police,
fire and ambulance / healthcare services and motoring organisations;
Dramatically decrease the amount of gritting required, its urgency and gritting related local authority costs,
Increase seasonal employment (more tyre fitters will be required);
Improve tyre industry, wholesaler and retailer productivity and turnover with a possible resultant increase in employment;
Allow more tyre retailers to introduce “Tyre Hotel & Swap” services;
Prevent the road infrastructure from closing down;
Allow life to continue as normal.

The picture above right was taken in a snow storm in Finland when the temperature was below freezing. When examining this picture, two questions need to be asked. Would traffic, and the transport system in particular, still be moving if the same situation arose in the UK and, would children still be walking home at the end of a perfectly normal school day?