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Sorry, they haven’t a clue

Equality Streets is about integrating road-users on a humanised level playing-field. Today (6.11.13), Boris Johnson announced a £35m scheme “to improve safety for cyclists” – by segregating them. His poodle, Andrew Gilligan, wants additional traffic lights for cyclists. With deadly irony, … Continue reading

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Fighting the forces that lord it over us

This inspiring call to arms by Russell Brand contains memorable phrases and images, e.g. “Boris simpering under a make-up brush”, or “the piped-in toxic belch wafted into homes by the media”. The following applies to Equality Streets, indeed it echoes … Continue reading

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Road v rail

For convenience, the car is unparalleled. It enables you to go door to door whenever you want. It lets you carry stuff and ferry passengers. Yet the traffic dictators make roads a dangerous obstacle course beset with contrived conflicts, bottlenecks and … Continue reading

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Do traffic violations kill?

I came across this piece by Sarah Goodyear, inviting us to be shocked at low-level policing, and implying that traffic violations were responsible for road deaths in Atlantic City. I commented: People assume the rule-breakers are the killers. But what is the … Continue reading

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All-way stop v roundabout

Thanks to Sam Goater for sending this entertaining clip from the U.S. show Mythbusters. I’ve always thought the all-way stop should be an all-way yield, because what’s the point of stopping if you can continue filtering? In the experiment, it … Continue reading

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Supporting the majority?

The Tories claim to support the hardworking, honest majority. Why then, do they support a system of counterproductive traffic control for which the hardworking, honest majority pays through the nose?  

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Pulling off a fast one

“We will find the money to pay for the fuel tax freeze,” says Cameron. It never enters the heads of policymakers to consider traffic system reform as a rich source of kind cuts and efficiency savings. In persuading us that we … Continue reading

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Dear George

We heard on the News that the Chancellor will freeze fuel tax if savings can be found. Read my stuff, George, and you’ll find that savings of £50 billion, yes £50,000,000,000 a year, can be made from traffic system reform. At the … Continue reading

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Is Woking joking?

I’ve spent the last few days in Woking, where I used to go to school. 24-hour traffic lights produce congestion at every turn, even on one-way systems where there is no conflict. Are traffic managers, whose armoury of railings and … Continue reading

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Trains and automobiles

In his latest bid to keep HS2 on track, the transport minister is now claiming capacity is the crucial factor. Capacity could be increased by adding carriages to existing trains and if necessary extending platforms to accommodate them. Above all, … Continue reading

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