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Breakthrough scheme
The little town of Poynton in Cheshire puts to shame cities such as London, Brighton, Bristol, Oxford and Cambridge by introducing the UK’s most innovative traffic scheme to date, proving that equality expressed through design can tame, decongest and render safe the … Continue reading
Chris Huhne
Of course it was ill-judged of Chris Huhne not to own up when the story broke, but how can you pervert the course of justice when speeding law based on numbers is intrinsically unjust? As I wrote in Feb 2012: If … Continue reading
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Highway robbery too
Traffic lights in locations such as the one featured here not only make roads dangerous, cause needless delay, maximise fuel use and emissions, they represent highway robbery, public indecency and public disservice. How can anyone countenance such tactics?
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20 proving infectious
20mph limits are spreading – see this piece in The Independent. Aims overlap with mine (road safety and quality of life), but 20 is a number, and it should be about context. If 20’s Plenty is helping change the culture, … Continue reading
The US shooting in perspective
The Connecticut shooting is appalling, but – not to diminish it – hundreds of children are killed on UK roads every year. The latest rampage in the US is the one-off act of an identifiable, disturbed individual. Much of the under-reported … Continue reading
A traffic manager’s unasked question
Oliver Burkeman rates Peter Drucker as a supreme management thinker. If you’re a boss, says Drucker in The Effective Executive, “develop the habit of asking your underlings the one question that will trigger more improvements than any other: ‘What do … Continue reading
Corporate manslaughter?
Here is yet another “accident” involving a cyclist. As stated before, most accidents are not accidents. They are events contrived by the rules and design of the road. These days, even more euphemistically, “accidents” are called “collisions”. Note that this … Continue reading
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Tagged accident, collision, corporate manslaughter, cyclist, David Poblet, Ellie Carey, Equality Streets, road safety
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Good money after bad?
Yesterday’s Eve Std article about spending on London’s roads contains this gem: “The number of automated traffic lights will increase by 50% to keep traffic flowing”. That’s funny, when I last looked, traffic lights, automated or not, were keeping traffic jamming … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, junction control, Lambeth Bridge, London junctions, London roads, traffic-lights
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War on Britain’s Roads?
When I heard about the BBC programme, The War on Britain’s Roads (5 Dec), I drafted an email to the commissioning exec saying I’d keep an open mind, but could they yet again be chasing sensation instead of questioning the system … Continue reading
