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Clinton on Mandela
Among other things, said Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela showed “the futility of coercive power”. Take note, traffic managers. Your coercive approach is futile, and doomed.
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Solutions?
Technological “solutions” are inappropriate for life on the roads. Far better to exploit our greatest resource: cooperative human nature.
Vols de mort
Do traffic managers and traffic system salesmen have a vested interest in keeping roads dangerous and congested? Most traffic regulation represents an insult to the public, and maintains a lucrative gravy train for the Voldemorts who lord it over us … Continue reading
Deaths in Northern Ireland v deaths on UK roads
In Northern Ireland (it was stated on BBC News), there have been 3,500 deaths in 3 decades. Made me work out the approximate death and injury toll in 3 decades on UK roads (I’ll research the exact figures anon). Deaths: … Continue reading
J’accuse
I accuse roads policy(makers) of negligence, Gilligan and Johnson of myopia, and the media of indifference to reform. Meanwhile, another innocent is sacrificed on the altar of the malign priority system: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24936942
Death of a cyclist: a tragedy?
Another cyclist bites the dust on London’s roads – at traffic lights. If the spate of deaths among cyclists is a tragedy, it is an avoidable man-made tragedy, contrived by the anti-social rules of the road. By imposing unequal rights, … Continue reading
Tragedy or corporate murder?
Another cyclist killed at traffic lights in London. They call it a tragedy. Look at the vicious street design. Isn’t it more a case of corporate murder?
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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
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
