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Equality = no austerity
Does Will Hutton have a tendency to exaggerate bad news? In this piece, he quotes economics professor, Yanis Varoufakis: “There is zero chance of austerity working. It’s like thinking you can escape gravity by waving your arms up and down.” … Continue reading
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Tagged austerity, Equality Streets, growth, kind cuts, Will Hutton
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Wind or traffic lights?
Proposed cuts to windfarm subsidies are rattling recipients, and challenging government claims to be “the greenest ever”. No less a seer than James Lovelock rubbished the claims made for wind power. I’m blue from saying it, but not only can … Continue reading
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Tagged efficiency savings, Equality Streets, James Lovelock, kind cuts, windfarms
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Guernsey, the home of FiT (filter in turn), gets a traffic light
Article here.
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Tagged Equality Streets, filter-in-turn, Guernsey, This is Guernsey, traffic-lights
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One roundabout, 70 traffic lights
Funny how Highways Agency spokespersons are never named. The roundabout is at Canford Bottom, near Bournemouth. Article and photograph here.
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Tagged Canford Bottom, Equality Streets, roundabout, traffic-lights
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Parking
PM had an item claiming traffic wardens are welcome back after a break from duty (no April Fool apparently). No-one minds reasonable regulation, but parking enforcement is overwhelmingly unreasonable, vexatious, even extortionate. How many times have we been ticketed, clamped or … Continue reading
Brick walls
Our traffic control system makes roads dangerous, causes congestion, generates ill-will, encourages delinquency, damages air quality, damages our health, and costs a fortune. Despite my efforts to enlighten government and media (over the years I’ve emailed the Today programme a … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, spending cuts, Today, traffic control system
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Strange brew
In her Four Thought, Kate Smurthwaite told us that donkeys receive more in charity than homeless humans. The acres of newsprint and hours of airtime devoted to phone hacking also reveal eccentric priorities, considering the dearth of coverage devoted to … Continue reading
Box ticking
Until recently, domestic news was all about the inevitability of painful cuts. As often stated here, traffic system reform offers vast scope for kind cuts. These days, domestic news is all about the need for growth. Leaving aside the Transition movement, … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, kind cuts, painful lcuts, painless cuts, Transition movement
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Fear of the unknown
“Most of us have a hard-wired fear of all things unusual,” says gym instructor-turned-author Venice A Fulton in a piece in today’s Observer about his diet book, Six Weeks to OMG. This is the only way I can understand the … Continue reading
