Balls bowled

Posted on 7th April 2013 by Martin Cassini

So Ed Balls is caught “speeding” (a fabricated crime if ever there was one). What beats me about incidents like this is the abject acceptance by intelligent people that they are wrong and speed limits are right. Never do they question or criticise the one-dimensional regulation that makes oafs of us all. Injustice is built into road regulation. It presumes guilt. The mean-spirited technical parameters don’t allow you to establish innocence on grounds of reason or commonsense.

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London buses hit two walkers or cyclists a day

Posted on 6th April 2013 by Martin Cassini

Hardly surprising given the vile traffic system by which we are forced to live and die -a system that enshrines inequality and is supported by the state. Story here.

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US article about Poynton

Posted on 4th April 2013 by Martin Cassini

Thanks to Ian Walker for bringing this article by Sarah Goodyear to my attention. Judging by many of the comments, a lot of people still don’t get it. The phrase “shared space” has a life of its own. Equality Streets doesn’t seem to be gaining currency, but I’m sticking with it.

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Chris Huhne

Posted on 12th March 2013 by Martin Cassini

“Any element of tragedy was entirely your own fault,” said Mr Justice Sweeney. No. Huhne is the victim of an inflexible, black-and-white system that elevates the letter of the law above the spirit. Life is about infinite shades of grey. Context is what counts, or should count. If the law is an ass, nowhere is it more asinine than in the field of traffic regulation.

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No alternative?

Posted on 10th March 2013 by Martin Cassini

No alternative to welfare cuts, intone ignorant government ministers. The Opposition is just as bad. No, there is no possible way of putting to better use the tens of billions that support our brutal, unequal, inefficient traffic control system.

 

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Phone hacking or traffic policy killing?

Posted on 2nd March 2013 by Martin Cassini

As far as I know, no-one has died from phone hacking. On the other hand, every year on our mismanaged roads, 25,000 humans are killed or seriously injured. Phone hacking is never out of the media. But The Times thinks my Jan 2007 article about the iniquity of the traffic control system is job done. Newsnight, too, see no reason to revisit the subject since my Jan 2008 report, despite 150,000 road deaths and serious injuries in the meantime, and despite progressive schemes which show that equality eliminates “accidents”.

 

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Cuts in welfare? Take a hike!

Posted on 2nd March 2013 by Martin Cassini

Former transport minister, Philip Hammond, now defence secretary, says further cuts in the armed forces would be wrong, so cuts should fall in welfare. There is no silver bullet, said someone else, repeating the moronic mantra that the media accept without question. There is a silver bullet: traffic system reform. Replacing standard control with self-control. The savings? At least £50bn a year. Who would be disadvantaged? The purveyors of traffic control systems. No-one else.

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IEA blog post

Posted on 15th February 2013 by Martin Cassini

A blog post about the launch of the Poynton film: here.

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Poynton revisited

Posted on 14th February 2013 by Martin Cassini

Blog post by Dick Puddlecote about the IEA Poynton film launch here.

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Breakthrough scheme

Posted on 6th February 2013 by Martin Cassini

The little town of Poynton in Cheshire puts to shame cities  such as London, Brighton, Bristol, Oxford and Cambridge by introducing the UK’s most innovative traffic scheme to date, proving that equality expressed through design can tame, decongest and render safe the busiest of junctions: video here.

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