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Lights out – “drive with caution!”
Traffic lights are out at Kew Bridge. As usual, the official line is “Drivers are advised to approach with caution”, suggesting that when lights are “working”, we can revert to the officially-sanctioned default mode of driving with neglect.
Extending speed limits
There are plans to reduce speed limits in towns and on rural roads. Like traffic lights, speed limits would be redundant if the rules of the road were based on equality instead of priority, if roads were designed to express a social … Continue reading
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Social solutions
I’ve said this before, but if road-user relationships were based on social values – equality based on time of arrival – instead of traffic regulation – priority based on status of road or direction of travel – most of our … Continue reading
Ode rage
Andy Andy this is massive When you play just don’t be passive Attack attack attack the Fed Win or lose you’ll still have cred
Officials v councillors
Reith lecturer, Niall Ferguson, said the rule of law is becoming the rule of lawyers, and citizen power is the only way to stop the rot. Similarly, road regulation has got out of hand with paid officials wielding more power … Continue reading
Harry Potter on common law
In The Strange Case of the Law (BBC2), criminal defence barrister, Harry Potter (who keeps his wig in a Quality Street tin), says that English common law was “this country’s greatest gift to the world”. Our traffic control system looked that … Continue reading
Pedestrian safety v traffic flow?
A letter in today’s Telegraph says pedestrian safety is more important than traffic flow, and longer green time is the only way to improve pedestrian safety. No. Equality is a panacea: with equal rights and responsibilities, road-users coexist as equals. In the intrinsically safe framework created … Continue reading
Relationships not rules
Discussing deficiencies in child protection services, ITN social affairs editor, Penny Marshall, said, “abused children want relationships, not rules”. You could say the same for road-users, burdened by vexatious traffic regulation. As a basis for road-user relationships, priority is nothing less than an … Continue reading
Designing for danger
Traffic officers run a system that’s intrinsically dangerous, then devise expensive controls to mitigate the danger. But inevitably they fail, because all they are doing is treating the symptoms of the problem they created in the first place. If they dealt with … Continue reading
Catch-22
The scientific method requires proof by experimentation. How do you prove that equality-based self-control is safer and more efficient than formal control, when the highway authorities who can give permission for meaningful experiments refuse it? They have a vested interest in the … Continue reading
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