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Traffic lights and air quality
In No Idle Matter (2007), I wrote that the stop-start motion caused by traffic lights multiplies emissions and fuel use by a factor of four. In this piece, Prashant Kumar (University of Surrey) says air quality at signal-controlled junctions is no … Continue reading
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Tagged air quality, No Idle Matter, Prashant Kumar, traffic policy
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Driverless cars
Driverless cars are presented as the answer to road safety. “Accidents” are blamed on human error. No. Roads are dangerous because of the unequal, intolerant priority system.
Clarkson’s not wrong
Clarkson says speed limits are “annoying”. Even worse, they are counterproductive. Traffic regulation treats us like simpletons, or automatons. We should learn to drive by context, not by numbers. Brake! would claim that freedom to choose our own speed would be … Continue reading
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Tagged BRAKE!, Equality Streets, Jeremy Clarkson, Martin Cassini
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Missing the point again
To cut the deficit, the Govt is thinking of selling its stake in Eurostar, which could raise £20bn. Among other national assets it might flog is the Royal Mint. Meanwhile, traffic regulation, which acts to our detriment and costs tens … Continue reading
Grotesque government ignorance
To cut the deficit, the Govt is thinking of selling its stake in Eurostar, which could raise £20bn. Among other national assets it might flog is the Royal Mint. Meanwhile, traffic regulation, which acts to our detriment and costs tens … Continue reading
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Priority no priority
I go on about priority being the fatal flaw at the heart of the traffic system – how it’s a diabolical basis for road-user relationships, how it sets the stage for neglect and danger, how it produces a doomed, retrospective … Continue reading
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Abuse of human nature
On the road, as in other travels in life, freedom+responsibility+education=empowerment. Most traffic regulation disempowers us, upsets our relationships with other road-users. If policymakers used instead of abused our social instinct for cooperation, things could be so simple. But the lords … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate manslaughter, Equality Streets, Philip Larkin
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Merchant bankers?
Are they all merchants!? Instead of making roads intrinsically safe – by replacing priority with equality – traffic authorities spend fortunes on retrospective “solutions” which are not solutions at all. Instead of integrating all modes in a mutually-tolerant mix, they … Continue reading
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Tagged cycle lanes, Equality Streets, priority, segregated cycle lanes
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My own backyard
Local press confirms Council rethink over pedestrianisation after hearing my Equality Streets presentation.
