Documentary feature film: The Jam Busters © (part of the Fit Roads campaign)

Is it time to install traffic lights in shopping centres and skateboard parks, or time to treat motorists as grown-ups? Drawing the battle lines for a consumer fightback, this film project and campaign expose 80 years of defective traffic policy and offer a blueprint for change.

The evidence shows that when we're free of controls and free to use commonsense, courtesy thrives and congestion dissolves. When lights are out of action, we approach junctions slowly and filter in turn. In Dutch cities where lights have been scrapped, accidents and congestion have melted away. In Montana, removing speed limits brought lower average speeds and a drop in accidents.

To detain us as we go about our lawful business, the government must demonstrate a need. Yet no government body has shown a need for detaining us at lights when there is no conflicting traffic. A retrospective "cure" for a man-made malady - main road priority - traffic lights are a recipe for inefficiency and trouble.

A third of our CO2 output is from traffic - 40% from traffic idling. Apart from the waste of time and fuel, and the heightened danger from drivers speeding to beat the lights, the electricity alone that's required to power the UK's galaxy of 24-hour traffic lights produces 57,000 tonnes of CO2 every year.

Get involved in these projects and help liberate our roads from congestion and over-regulation.

Fit Roads aims to restore common law principles of equal rights and responsibilities so that all road-users are free to filter in turn, rendering external controls redundant. Email to register your support. It's free to join, but every £1 counts so please get in touch if you would like to make a contribution. The film/campaign fund is audited by Eric Nash, FAAI, 51a Ermine St, Huntingdon PE29 3EZ. Tel : 01480 454442. Email : eric.a.nash@talk21.com.

The Jam Busters will include work in the U.S. and Holland. It will feature a colourful range of road-users from cab drivers to celebrities. The team already includes double Oscar-winner, Jeremy Irons, and an Oscar-winning producer.
£40,000 will get the show on the road, with a final budget, including overseas filming, estimated at £400,000. Full funding buys the rights to 50% of net revenue, with smaller amounts rewarded pro rata, e.g. 5% for £40,000. Non-PLCs qualify under EIS for 20% income tax relief.
Returns can't be guaranteed, but in 2004, the documentary feature film, Super Size Me, made $11,536,423 in the US, $1,995,967 in the UK, $2,016,222 in Australia, $1,958,207 in Germany - to name just four territories. If The Jam Busters gets anything like the distribution of Super Size Me - and we are all road-users, so it could be even bigger - it will see healthy returns. There is also good revenue potential from the international TV market.
Given profitable distribution, contributions of less than £8,000 will be repaid but won't qualify for revenue share. They will receive a screen credit and an invitation to a special screening. Donors will receive thanks, a credit, where possible an invitation to a screening, and the satisfaction of helping a life-enhancing cause. Please email contact details unless you wish to remain anonymous.
As far as possible money raised will be seen on the screen, but third party introductions will qualify for an introducer's fee.