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Causes of congestion
As was flagged up in a recent post, the Transport Select Committee’s report on congestion published today says nothing about the role of traffic lights or any other interventionist traffic management measure. Not a thing. Summary of report here.
Kind cuts
Amid the claims about the inevitability of painful cuts, I’ve lost count of the number of times over the past couple of years that I’ve pitched to editors an article that explains the scope in traffic system reform for painless cuts of tens … Continue reading
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Missing the point again?
Next Thursday (15.9.11) the Transport Select Committee publishes a report, “Out of the jam – reducing congestion on our roads”. Traffic critic, Kenneth Todd, submitted a well-worded statement, and I submitted something in haste. Today I learned that the report contains nothing … Continue reading
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Highway toad
Walking home this afternoon, I was crossing an angled junction, aware that a car had arrived behind me to turn in. I didn’t look up because, according to the Highway Code, pedestrians have right-of-way at junctions. Also I was already crossing, so … Continue reading
Traffic lights off at night?
The Bristol Evening Post asked for my views about switching off traffic lights at night to save energy. Article here. The full text of my reply was: In a sense, any advance on the current system of mandatory traffic lights is better … Continue reading
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The IAAF, FIFA, and traffic policy
The IAAF’s one-false-start-and-you’re-disqualified rule is the latest example of joy-killing by regulation-obsessed bureaucrats. The starting gun in athletics should fire at zero in a 5-second countdown. The current system is unpredictable, which prompts false starts. To solve the problem they … Continue reading
What goes around …
Is it far-fetched to suggest that social discontent is prompted by public policy which treats us like morons (most traffic control) or cash cows (fuel duty, parking controls, speed cameras, 0844 phone numbers, etc)? Such public policy failures widen the gap … Continue reading
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Tagged parking controls, riots, social discontent, Them and Us, traffic control
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Naughtie but too nice?
In the news today: cuts in government subsidies to local bus services, i.e. a kick in the teeth for the people, against a backdrop of abysmal existing provision, punitive parking controls in towns, and government obsession with a £60bn hi-speed … Continue reading
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Tagged James Naughtie, Martin Cassini, Today Programme, traffic control, traffic system reform
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Is street design enough?
Ben Hamilton-Baillie, street designer and proponent of shared space (he penned the phrase), thinks streetscape redesign is enough on its own, and that streets are designed to express a social context, road-users will instinctively start behaving sociably. I accept that to a degree, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Hamilton-Baillie, Equality Streets, GDA, Guide Dogs, Martin Cassini, shared space, shared surfaces
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