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Cuts in welfare? Take a hike!

Former transport minister, Philip Hammond, now defence secretary, says further cuts in the armed forces would be wrong, so cuts should fall in welfare. There is no silver bullet, said someone else, repeating the moronic mantra that the media accept … Continue reading

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IEA blog post

A blog post about the launch of the Poynton film: here.

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Poynton revisited

Blog post by Dick Puddlecote about the IEA Poynton film launch here.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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War on Britain’s Roads

(BBC1, 6 Dec – viewed on i-Player on 12 Dec) It was an exciting programme, and conveyed the sensation of cycling in traffic. It delivered a deft presentation of what it set out to do – paint a picture of the … Continue reading

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