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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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Blame the children?
A half-heard news item on Today was about 11 year-olds immersed in their mobile phones being three times more likely (than 10 year-olds?) to be hit on the roads. No doubt the usual suspects will blame children’s lack of awareness. … Continue reading
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Tagged child safety, mobile phones, road safety, traffic regulation
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What’s weirder?
The ideas behind Equality Streets have been called “counterintuitive” (a polite word for weird?). Are equality and filter-in-turn weird, or is the traffic system – by imposing unequal rights and subverting our social nature – more than a bit weird?
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If
If I’m right: that the edifice of traffic control, based as it is on anti-social priority, is flawed and misguided; and that self-control on streets designed for equality are safer and more efficient than streets governed by priority and signals, … Continue reading
