abstract:Rat Park was a study into drug addiction conducted in the late 1970s (and published in 1980) by Canadian psychologist Bruce K. Alexander and his colleagues at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.
Liberal Democrat Baroness Tonge, a former MP for Richmond Park who moved the amendment to throw out the plans altogether, said that instead of penalising local people to park, "rat runners" should pay a toll "towards the upkeep of the roads".