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Transport is barely making it onto the radar this election, with hardly a mention from the big 3 parties apart from the Tories plans to abolish speed cameras, speed limits and traffic lights. But in fact it's worse: politicians are in a frenzy of road and air travel electioneering. They make short journeys like London to Gloucester in twin-engined aircraft; presumably the train isn't important enough. John Prescott has the Battlebus, a luxury, silver coach of the football team variety that must go pretty fast looking at some of the itineraries. It would be OK if it took passengers going the same way, but people with 2 Jaguars don't normally stop for hitchers.