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Dead red time and space
Scenes like this are repeated ad infinitum up and down the land.
“Obnoxious autocrats”
From Alan Rusbridger’s Guardian interview with Google’s Eric Schmidt: He decided against exploiting facial recognition, which he sees as wide open to abuse, and warns of the dangers of combining such technology with London-style traffic cameras. “You could imagine aggressive, obnoxious … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Johnson, congestion charge, Eric Schmidt, Ken Livingstone, traffic-lights
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Highway robbery too
Traffic lights in locations such as the one featured here not only make roads dangerous, cause needless delay, maximise fuel use and emissions, they represent highway robbery, public indecency and public disservice. How can anyone countenance such tactics?
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Tagged highway robbery, public disservice, public indecency, traffic-lights
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Good money after bad?
Yesterday’s Eve Std article about spending on London’s roads contains this gem: “The number of automated traffic lights will increase by 50% to keep traffic flowing”. That’s funny, when I last looked, traffic lights, automated or not, were keeping traffic jamming … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, junction control, Lambeth Bridge, London junctions, London roads, traffic-lights
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Extending speed limits
There are plans to reduce speed limits in towns and on rural roads. Like traffic lights, speed limits would be redundant if the rules of the road were based on equality instead of priority, if roads were designed to express a social … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, speed limits, traffic system reform, traffic-lights
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Traffic control causes congestion
Monmouth. A40 southbound approaching the A466 (Wye Valley/Tintern Abbey route). Got caught there in diabolical congestion five years ago. Heading north to Ross-on-Wye last Friday, we saw the same half-mile 3-lane tailback and were reminded of it. Luckily we returned early Sunday … Continue reading
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Tagged A40, Monmouth, Ross-on-Wye, traffic congestion, traffic managers, traffic-lights
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Brassed off
Today I was timing the traffic lights in Braunton (near Barnstaple) where I still have plans despite a refusal from Devon Highways to agree a lights-off trial. (The trial is to prove the obvious: that we’re better off under self-control, … Continue reading
Guernsey, the home of FiT (filter in turn), gets a traffic light
Article here.
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Tagged Equality Streets, filter-in-turn, Guernsey, This is Guernsey, traffic-lights
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One roundabout, 70 traffic lights
Funny how Highways Agency spokespersons are never named. The roundabout is at Canford Bottom, near Bournemouth. Article and photograph here.
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Tagged Canford Bottom, Equality Streets, roundabout, traffic-lights
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Four Thought – correction
The conclusion I meant to draw about the amber light and hidden pedestrian was that given no lights and no traffic light poles obscuring the view and concealing the pedestrian, I would have been driving according to human context rather … Continue reading
