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BBC Rethink, The City Streets
This episode of BBC Radio 4’s series Rethink, broadcast on 18.6.2026, featured traffic engineer, Keith Firth of NRP; me, Martin Cassini, campaigner for traffic system reform; Sohanna Srinivasan, Urban Planning Design at north Herts Council; and Dutch author, Marco te … Continue reading
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If I’m right: that the edifice of traffic control, based as it is on anti-social priority, is flawed and misguided; and that self-control on streets designed for equality are safer and more efficient than streets governed by priority and signals, … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Martin Cassini, road accidents, road safety, rules of the road
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Traffic system reform according to AI search
Into my search engine, now assisted by AI, I entered “traffic system reform”. This came up: “The UK government is implementing major reforms to road safety legislation, including mandatory eye tests for older drivers and a potential reduction in the … Continue reading
Lollipops
In Brecht’s play, Galileo chooses an agreeable old age rather than torture and death at the hands of an outraged papacy. So he recants his finding that the Earth is round. His disciple, Andreas, laments: “Pity the world that is … Continue reading
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Tagged Brecht, Equality Streets, Galileo, Life of Galileo, lollipop men and women, Reg Brown
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Delinquent rules produce delinquent fools
Sunday 8 Feb 2026. I was on this courtesy crossing when a van driver cut me off and yelled, “Wtf do you think you’re doing!” I said I’m on a crossing. “It’s not a f+g zebra, so I don’t have … Continue reading
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Tagged courtesy crossings, Equality Streets, Martin Cassini, road rage, road safety, zebra crossings
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Cutting stop-go traffic – AI or Equality Streets?
Google develops AI “to tackle some of society’s biggest challenges in a responsible way. For example, we use AI to: Support efforts to curb climate change, like reducing stop-and-go traffic to lower vehicle emissions. Equality without traffic control (except for … Continue reading
Highways to Hell
This was a programme on Radio 4 on 4 Jan 2026, produced by Jonathan Brunert. Like every other BBC programme I’ve seen or heard about traffic congestion, it missed the point – that the main cause of congestion (and “accidents”!) … Continue reading
Reducing “accidents”
So the government is unveiling a new batch of legislation with a view to a 70% reduction in the 30,000 annual casualty toll by 2035. Most of it is to do with tighter regulation. Yet the avoidable casualty toll could … Continue reading
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Pitiful analysis
The Today Programme, 11 August 2025. Discussion prompted by government announcing that 3-year eye tests are to be introduced for drivers aged 70+. The BBC wheeled in the usual spokesperson, Edmund King, formerly with the RAC, now “President” of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmund King, Equality Streets, Justin Webb, Martin Cassini, Today Programme
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Bureaucracy kills the joy
One of my themes is how over-regulation makes life on the roads a misery when it could be a pleasure. Bureaucracy too can kill the joy. From Freedom for Drivers Foundation: The FT on planning impediments to a major congestion-cutting … Continue reading
