{"id":20646,"date":"2016-12-30T01:21:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T01:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20646"},"modified":"2016-12-30T01:21:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T01:21:11","slug":"learners-to-be-allowed-on-motorways-act-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20646","title":{"rendered":"Learners to be Allowed on Motorways &#8211; Act III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/303;background-image: none; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"A two-legged stool\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/two_leg_stool.jpg\" alt=\"A two-legged stool\" width=\"524\" height=\"303\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>This <a title=\"Plans to let learner drivers have motorway driving lessons revealed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/plans-to-let-learner-drivers-have-motorway-driving-lessons-revealed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email alert just came through from DfT.<\/a> It\u2019s about allowing learner drivers on motorways.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s just take a time-out here before we get all excited. This precise subject has kicked off at least twice in the last 10 years, and each time it was put across as \u2018definitely going to happen\u2019. Changes to government killed it stone dead both times, just as it has the various other times it\u2019s kicked off going back further still.<\/p>\n<p>This current government is about as stable as a two-legged stool as a result of Brexit and Theresa May\u2019s unbelievably bad appointments to both the Cabinet and other posts, and her obvious inability to see how \u2018Brexit\u2019 and \u2018business as normal\u2019 are mutually exclusive. It isn\u2019t going to survive past one term at best, and even if it does it\u2019s going to have a lot on its plate. This particular issue will be way down the list, and quite frankly \u2013 and disappointingly \u2013 I can see it sinking without trace just like it does every other time.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, I really hope that I\u2019m wrong. Allowing learners on to motorways is massively overdue, and I would welcome it.<\/p>\n<p>The proposals would mean that only ADIs in cars fitted with dual controls would be allowed to conduct motorway lessons. Roof boxes (advertising the school) would not be allowed, because they can (and do sometimes) blow off at speed. Motorway lessons would be \u2018voluntary\u2019 \u2013 I\u2019m not 100% certain what that means, but it\u2019s probably a get-out clause for people who don\u2019t live anywhere near a motorway (and, unfortunately, those ADIs who &#8211; through <strong>every<\/strong> fault of their own \u2013 can\u2019t afford the fuel for the additional miles a motorway lesson would entail, and who wouldn\u2019t do them even if they could).<\/p>\n<p>There is a consultation in that link I gave for people to add their own comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This email alert just came through from DfT. It\u2019s about allowing learner drivers on motorways. Let\u2019s just take a time-out here before we get all excited. This precise subject has kicked off at least twice in the last 10 years, and each time it was put across as \u2018definitely going to happen\u2019. Changes to government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,114,84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-dft","category-dvsa-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}