-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Manslaughter charges at last? - Equality StreetsEquality Streets on Admission
- OK, Really, What About The Roads? on Priority
- The unbearable crassness of agreeing - Equality StreetsEquality Streets on War on Britain’s Roads
- Accidents at Traffic Lights – Lets End The Madness | StrikeEngine – Car Tuning on Four Thought – correction
- Albert Slawson on Contact and links
Meta
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Red light Ken (and my road rage)
Ken Livingstone, who during his reign added 1200 sets of traffic lights to London streets, now “pledges to install traffic lights to give cyclists a five second head start,” reports The Times. Boris too “is considering early green lights,” chirps … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged cyclist safety, Equality Streets, Evening Standard, Ken Livingstone, The Times, traffic-lights
Leave a comment
Equality in a car park? Pull the other one!
Often cited as places where drivers behave considerately are car parks, because they are not part of the regulated road network. In a Tesco par cark yesterday, when I was on foot and asserted my equal right to the road space, I … Continue reading
Smacking children = disabling drivers
On the subject of smacking on Any Questions, the excellent Steve Jones said he was hit a lot at school, and that smackers often smacked to show who was in charge, which created nothing but resentment at injustice. There is a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Equality Streets, smacking, Steve Jones, traffic control
Leave a comment
A question of justice
If Chris Huhne’s alleged act perverts the course of justice, does non-discretionary traffic regulation pervert the cause of justice?
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged cause of justice, Chris Huhne, course of justice, speed limits, traffic regulation
1 Comment
Chris Huhne
A reminder of my post last year (18 May): Whether or not Chris Huhne tried to pass the buck, his saga reveals the contortions to which citizens can be driven to escape the tentacles of a system that values the … Continue reading
Exhibition Road
I’ve said as much before, but in response to this Observer piece about Exhibition Road, I’ll say it again. Is streetscape redesign enough on its own? Not in my view. People need to unlearn the bad habits of a lifetime instilled … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Equality Streets, Exhibition Road, Rowan Moore, shared space
1 Comment
Shared space pedestrian casualty
I’ve always said that to achieve Equality Streets (or Roads FiT for People), deregulation is not enough on its own. Nor, in my view, is streetscape redesign enough on its own. News of a serious pedestrian casualty at one of Coventry’s … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Colin Knight, Coventry, Equality Streets, pedestrian ccasualty, shared space, traffic-lights
1 Comment
AUTOcracy v DEMOcracy
Most traffic regulation is a vicious circle incorporating a dead end. It champions AUTOcracy over DEMOcracy. Most urban and suburban junctions could be thriving civilised spaces, but they are dehumanised by traffic regulation which imposes unequal rights and discriminates against vulnerable … Continue reading
19th v 21st century resistance to rail
PM (Radio 4) had an item about Victorian resistance to railway development, implying there was a parallel with today’s opposition to HS2. Seems a narrow comparison, because in the 19th century, there were no telephones, cars or Internet.
HS2
(Update of 2011 post at Free to Choose): Apart from the likelihood that the £32bn estimate for HS2 will increase to at least twice that sum, the trade-off, whichever way you cut it, is negative. HS2 would shave minutes off … Continue reading
