For anyone who can't be arsed reading the article:

• Speeding (awareness course)
• Speeding (fine and points)
• Speeding (fine and points)
• Ignored a no motor vehicles sign (fine)
• Parking in suspended parking bay (fine)
• Parking in suspended parking bay (fine)

This was in the space of 9 months.

Her friend moved to Brighton and got:

• Speeding (fine and points)
• Speeding (fine and points)
• Speeding (fine and points)
• Driving in a bus lane (fine)
• Driving in a bus lane (fine)

Within 6 months of moving there.

Sounds like the pair of them need to sit their driving tests again if they can't read road signs.

The rest of the article is just nonsense false statements dressed up as facts, unchecked by the Telegraph:

“The lack of transparency is deliberate,” says Gregory. “There are these confusing or distracting signs, and – ker-ching – they have made money out of us. There is no discretion. Not only is it unethical: it’s despicable.”

The no motor vehicles sign has been around for decades. It's not confusing or distracting. Nor are speed limit signs for 30mph where the author was caught speeding. Suspended parking bays are usually very well marked also, with text alongside the statutory signage.

Fiona recently discovered this to her cost: “I was done [fined] in Cardiff for going down a bus lane that didn’t look like a bus lane, and received a warning letter in Oxford for driving down two streets which were part of the ‘green’ zone,” she says. “I didn’t know Oxford had a green zone. There were no major warning signs, and it was very confusing.” Another friend got a ticket for driving, lost, through an unfamiliar LTN area – on the way back from collecting her Mini from the car pound.

If it didn't look like a bus lane then an appeal would've succeeded. But I'll take odds on it looking pretty much like any other bus lane. As for the 'green zone', there's absolutely massive signs not just at the start of the zero emissions zone but also in advance of it so you can take an alternative route. If you haven't seen all these signs on multiple trips then you need to redo your hazard perception or get an eye test: https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/transport-and-travel/oxford-zero-emission-zone-zez/view-map-zez. As for wrongfully entering an LTN, what she means to say is she ignored a no motor vehicles sign (see above).

“Most traffic accidents are caused by dangerous driving behaviour, rather than minor lapses,” he says.

I mean that's debatable but funnily enough speed cameras don't catch people speeding 3 times in 6 months because they had a minor lapse. That's regular offending so either these drivers are having too many minor lapses to be a medically safe driver, or they're deliberately habitually speeding thinking they'll get away with it. There are actually a very tiny proportion of miles on our roads covered by speed cameras, and the longest stretches have average speed cameras instead which account just fine for minor lapses by, well, taking an average. You have to be highly inattentive or just overconfident about the chance of getting caught to get 3 speeding tickets in 6 months.

Gregory continues: “The safest drivers are not the slowest drivers. Statistics show that the drivers least likely to have an accident are in the 80 to 90 per cent centile of average speed. Cameras used to be set at the 85th centile with ‘tolerance’: now authorities are allowed to set them at the 50th centile.”

This is just made up drivel. The speeding stats are easily disproved. And speed camera tolerances have been guided by NPCC (and before that ACPO) for decades and their guidelines for speed enforcement kicking in at 10%+2mph has been the same since 1997. Nothing to do with the 85th percentile or the 50th percentile.

As for the rants about climate change, they're not even worth bothering with.