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Social protocol trumps regulation
In his column in today’s Guardian, Oliver Burkeman discusses “norm violations”, e.g. queue jumping. It helps explain why on the roads, equality and self-control are safer and more efficient than priority and signal control. As I often say, you’d cause a … Continue reading
Congestion charging + HS2 = public waste x 2
What does HS2 have in common with the congestion charge? It will cost the earth, and it is being imposed before large-scale traffic system reform has even been tried. Cars are uniquely convenient, allowing you to go door-to-door at times of your choosing, and … Continue reading
Worst peacetime disaster
As mentioned before, as far as I know, no-one died of phone-hacking, but coverage is (or was) wall-to-wall. Meanwhile, on the roads, every year, 25000 are killed or hurt, many of them children. Yet my pitches to press and broadcast … Continue reading
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Sir Walter Scott and traffic control
Is there a link? No. Humour, humanity, empathy – these abound in Walter Scott, I learned in a Radio 4 programme presented by James Naughtie. By contrast, all are conspicuous by their absence in the mean-spirited murk of traffic control and enforcement. … Continue reading
Catch-22
The scientific method requires proof by experimentation. How do you prove that equality-based self-control is safer and more efficient than formal control, when the highway authorities who can give permission for meaningful experiments refuse it? They have a vested interest in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Catch-22, Equality Streets, traffic control, traffic management
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Smacking children = disabling drivers
On the subject of smacking on Any Questions, the excellent Steve Jones said he was hit a lot at school, and that smackers often smacked to show who was in charge, which created nothing but resentment at injustice. There is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, smacking, Steve Jones, traffic control
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AUTOcracy v DEMOcracy
Most traffic regulation is a vicious circle incorporating a dead end. It champions AUTOcracy over DEMOcracy. Most urban and suburban junctions could be thriving civilised spaces, but they are dehumanised by traffic regulation which imposes unequal rights and discriminates against vulnerable … Continue reading
Gulliver’s travails
Congestion caused by volume of traffic is acceptable. We’re in the same boat. No problem. But congestion caused or aggravated by unnecessary traffic control – you know, making us stop for no reason other than the light is red – is … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Gulliver's travails, traffic control
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What goes around …
Is it far-fetched to suggest that social discontent is prompted by public policy which treats us like morons (most traffic control) or cash cows (fuel duty, parking controls, speed cameras, 0844 phone numbers, etc)? Such public policy failures widen the gap … Continue reading
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Tagged parking controls, riots, social discontent, Them and Us, traffic control
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Naughtie but too nice?
In the news today: cuts in government subsidies to local bus services, i.e. a kick in the teeth for the people, against a backdrop of abysmal existing provision, punitive parking controls in towns, and government obsession with a £60bn hi-speed … Continue reading
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Tagged James Naughtie, Martin Cassini, Today Programme, traffic control, traffic system reform
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