Monthly Archives: April 2012

The brain dead give us brain damage

You can be the safest, most aware driver, but the bass turds are out to get you and get you they will. Paid savants devise cryptic regulation that builds into the vast public disservice known as traffic management. The other day I drove along … Continue reading

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Resistance to traffic lights

Hats off to a residents’ group in Saffron Walden which is organising resistance to new traffic lights near a residential development. In the insensitive way typical of local traffic authorities, Uttlesford made new traffic lights costing £250,000 a condition of the development, without consulting residents. Essex Highways … Continue reading

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The TCD (traffic control dictatorship) and Assad

Parallels in an article by Roger Cohen (NYT) between Assad and the TCD (traffic control dictatorship). “Nothing in the Arab uprisings suggests that any outcome short of the departure of the hated symbol of long repression will satisfy the people … Continue reading

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