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Blithering Boris
When you know about a subject, you are usually dismayed by the media’s portrayal or politicians’ grasp of it. Boris’s self-satisfied vauntings about his transport infrastructure plans are no exception. “Tree-dappled” my foot! What a disappointing bunch they are, Johnson, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Johnson, Equality Streets, Grant Shapps, HS2, Martin Cassini, transport and infrastructure
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Sorry, they haven’t a clue
Equality Streets is about integrating road-users on a humanised level playing-field. Today (6.11.13), Boris Johnson announced a £35m scheme “to improve safety for cyclists” – by segregating them. His poodle, Andrew Gilligan, wants additional traffic lights for cyclists. With deadly irony, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Gilligan, Boris Johnson, cycling superhighways
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“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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