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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
So last century
In Victorian times, children were seen and not heard. In the 20th century, road-users were hounded and herded. In the 21st century, with a few notable exceptions such as Poynton, road-users are still hounded and herded. Even in creative Totnes, the traffic … Continue reading
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Tagged Devon Highways, Equality Streets, HATOC Committee, Poynton, Reopen Totnes, Totnes
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ICE on Poynton
Good piece about Poynton by the Institution of Civil Engineers here.
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Tagged Ben Hamilton-Baillie, Howard Murray, Institution of Civil Engineers, Poynton
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Equality Streets coming to Totnes?
Working with Re-open Totnes. Traders’ group in call for ‘Equality Streets’ Totnes Times Wednesday 26th June 2013 RE Open Totnes, set up to challenge the current experimental traffic order road reversal system and to explore alternative solutions to the town’s … Continue reading
Mastering traffic control
In his comment piece on Mastering the Internet through surveillance of emails, etc. Henry Porter laments “the complacency [of] centre ground commentators … who seem happy with losing a little liberty to make the world safer. None … compared their government’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Henry Porter, mastering the internet, traffic control
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