Tag Archives: traffic managers

Corporate manslaughter?

Medics have called for hospital managers who ignored their warnings about Lucy Letby to face corporate manslaughter charges. Just as, in these pages, I have suggested that traffic managers and ministers should face such charges. Despite my analysis, reform proposals … Continue reading

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Vols de mort

Do traffic managers and traffic system salesmen have a vested interest in keeping roads dangerous and congested? Most traffic regulation represents an insult to the public, and maintains a lucrative gravy train for the Voldemorts who lord it over us … Continue reading

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A traffic manager’s unasked question

Oliver Burkeman rates Peter Drucker as a supreme management thinker. If you’re a boss, says Drucker in The Effective Executive, “develop the habit of asking your underlings the one question that will trigger more improvements than any other: ‘What do … Continue reading

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What has Barenboim got to do with it?

“To have real knowledge,” says Daniel Barenboim (Q+A, today’s Guardian Magazine), “one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations”. This is clearly beyond traffic managers, who treat the symptoms, never the underlying cause of our problems on … Continue reading

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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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Blood on their hands

It’s not surprising that cyclists inhale twice as much exhaust soot as pedestrians, but further proof  is here. Moreover, the s++t in the air is multiplied by a factor of four by the system of control which prohibits infinite filtering opportunities. Whichever way you cut … Continue reading

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