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How many roads? Surviving traffic lights in Paris
There’s a scene in Agnès Varda’s film, Cléo from 5 to 7, when Cléo (Corinne Marchand) starts crossing a Parisian street. Traffic gives way so she and a few other people can cross. It reminded me of an experience seared … Continue reading
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More evidence of WMD (D&D)
At the Asda junction in Hereford, two crashes on consecutive days at traffic lights, those weapons of mass distraction (danger and delay). Here’s one, witnessed by Sue Powell. Here’s another, also witnessed by Sue Powell, who sent me these photos.
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Tagged Asda junction, Equality Streets, Hereford, Sue Powell, traffic-lights, weapons of mass distraction, WMD
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Spanner in the works
Another attempt to sum up what I’m on about. The spanner in the works of the traffic system is priority. It imposes unequal rights-of-way and creates conflict between priority and non-priority traffic (including foot traffic). Priority – for main roads, … Continue reading
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Tagged equality, Equality Streets, Martin Cassini, priority, road safety, rules of the road
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MPs kowtow to the traffic control dictatorship
On a zoom call in support of a business threatened by proposed new traffic lights near Hereford recently, I was told by a traffic officer that my proposal to make the adjacent collision-prone junctions all-way give-ways would be illegal! Why? … Continue reading
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Channel Island mystery
Guernsey has filter-in-turn at some junctions. It also has ruettes tranquilles, where the speed limit is 15mph, and pedestrians, horse-riders and cyclists have priority over vehicles. So it was a surprise to see quite a number of traffic lights in … Continue reading
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Ironies in the fire
It’s bizarre that some see my call for equality-based reform of the traffic system as mad, dangerous or unworkable. If you were devising the system from scratch, would you make children responsible for their own safety? Or would you put … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Martin Cassini, rules of the road, traffic system
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Current system v Equality Streets
Current traffic system = coercive control, conflict, aggression, injustice, harm, misery. Equality Streets = sociable interaction, cooperation, quality of life and space, happiness.
Slaughterhouse 30,000pa
If I’m right – that the traffic system is intrinsically dangerous, and largely responsible for 30,000 avoidable casualties a year, as well as death and ill-health from poor air quality – then the perpetrators of the system, forever in denial, … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate manslaughter, Equality Streets, Kinder Streets, traffic policy, traffic system
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Coercive state control
The state is expected to apologise for enforced adoption, which involved about 186,000 families. When will the state acknowledge, apologise for and above all agree to change the traffic system which for a century and to this day claims 30,000 … Continue reading
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
