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Equality Streets is (are) inclusive
Equality Streets seeks to maximise safety, efficiency and quality of life for all road-users. I’m pro-walker, pro-cyclist, pro-choice and not anti-motorist. Cyclists seem to represent their own special interest group to the exclusion of others. Cyclists are included in my scenario, but motorists are usually … Continue reading
Seeing red
Today’s Mail on Sunday piece about an IEA Paper I co-authored with Richard Wellings twisted our work to fit some anti-Green agenda. The Paper and my accompanying polemic (Companion piece) can be found here at the Press tab.
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Tagged IEA Report, Martin Cassini, Richard Wellings, seeing red, traffic-lights
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Ratso Cassini
29.12.15 A driver honked at me from behind as I walked diagonally across Tesco car park in Barnstaple. “Where are your manners?” I asked. “Why weren’t you looking where you were going?” he yelled. I struck him dumb with a … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Hamilton-Baillie, Martin Cassini, Midnight Cowboy, Poynton, Ratso Rizzo, traffic-lights
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War on the roads. The system is to blame
In the centre of Exeter, on foot, approaching a traffic-lit junction, I saw a gap between clumps of waiting peds, and a bigger gap in the one-way traffic. As I crossed, causing inconvenience to no-one, a driver saw fit to … Continue reading
Traffic lights again
This Mail piece quotes me at length about traffic lights-out in Beverley. Keith’s claim that ditching lights would allow main roads to take over is true of the current priority system, but not of roads designed for equality and a social … Continue reading
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Tagged Beverley, Equality Streets, Guy Walters, Keith Firth, traffic-lights
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Thundering
Thunderer piece in today’s Times.
The VW double-cross
See here the inside story of how VW were exposed.
Lights-out chaos – really?
On reading this piece in the Bournemouth Daily Echo, it becomes clear that the headline claiming “traffic light chaos” is a misrepresentation. A commuter says, “They were totally out and people were going really gingerly through the junction,” – as … Continue reading
Boardman’s no-brainer. And mine
In this piece, Chris Boardman quotes the number of deaths from nitrous oxide fumes – 23,500 a year – and says investment in cycling infrastructure is a no-brainer. But in the UK you are never sure if it’s going to blow … Continue reading
Blindingly obvious
On PM (29.6.15), there was an item about the danger to pedestrians, especially blind pedestrians, from silent electric cars. Solutions were being sought in technology, e.g. artificial engine noises to warn of an approaching vehicle. Instead of these doomed, expensive attempts … Continue reading
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