MORE proof, if it was needed, that councils' war-on-the-car is driven more by knee-jerk instinct than actual necessity.

For after plonking down dozens of 20 mph zones in residential areas across the county, Lancashire County Council is now embarking on a review to see if they are worthwhile.

Doesn't this tell us, then, that these restrictions were arbitrarily imposed without any survey as to if and why they were needed to begin with?

Of course, the anti-car cranks in local government don't need reasons for making motorists' lives a misery -- they just like being bossy, if you ask me.

But can any councillor or party supply me with an election leaflet or manifesto which asked car-owners to vote for speed humps, the speed-camera explosion, unasked-for 20 mph limits, grassed-over streets or any of the other of the multitude of car-hostile measures that councils are bent on?

Well, can they?

No. So how can they democratically justify any of them?