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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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Tagged efficiency savings, Equality Streets, George Osborne, kind cuts
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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
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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Tagged Equality Streets, HS2, traffic system reform, Transport Minister
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HS twaddle
In a desperate bid to keep the HS2 vanity project alive, the transport minister will quote a report commissioned by HS2 Ltd which says HS2 will boost the economy by £15bn a year. That dubious figure is dwarfed by the potential … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, HS2, IEA, traffic system reform, Transport Minister
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Sex and traffic
A study reported in The Observer measures the erotic quotient of different parts of the body. The bit that relates to relationships on the road is this from Prof Oliver Turnbull of Bangor Uni, who led the study: “… we … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, priority, sex and traffic, traffic control, unfit roads
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Traffic regulation and zealotry
Today’s concluding Point of View by the great Roger Scruton had a bearing on the subject of relationships on the road. Apologies if I oversimplify. He spoke of shared values arising from shared experience, with families and nation states tolerating difference but sinking their differences … Continue reading
Omnishambles
The OED defines Iannucci’s inspired word as “a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterised by a string of blunders and miscalculations”. How well it describes traffic management.
Who are they trying to kid?
The RAC Foundation has discovered that councils are making serious profits from parking enforcement, as if we didn’t already know. Claims that “parking control keeps traffic flowing and pedestrians safe” are specious. Pedestrians will never be safe as long as priority rules. And … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, priority control, RAC Foundation, traffic-lights
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Equality v priority
One day, Equality Streets or shared space will be the norm. Yet in the early 21st century, assuming people have even heard of them, they are still seen as oddball, alternative. It’s the current system of priority and signal control … Continue reading
