"There's a bit of a regulatory mess, " said Eric Sampson, a visiting professor in transport at Newcastle University.

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"The parents who have jobs or are working every day and the young man who's going to school every day and lifting after or playing basketball and then going home and doing homework, all they know after seeing that story is, 'That's a mess down there, '" Golden said.

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Frankly, I was starting to wonder if there was anything else to say short of "it's a horrible mess!"

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