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Roads minister on speed (as it were)
Until the last paragraph, this sounded reasonable … People shouldn’t need speed limits to “tell them what speed to drive at”! Too often the limit is a target, and even 20 in an urban setting, especially with children around, can … Continue reading
Government lies
A prominent news story yesterday was the prospect of stiff fines for Britain’s failure to meet emissions reduction targets, particularly nitrogen dioxide which causes 4000 premature deaths a year. The main source of NO2 is traffic. Radio 4 News quoted … Continue reading
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Tagged emissions reduction targets, government lies, Professor Nigel Bell
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True care and attention
Traffic managers assume we are incapable of negotiating safe movement under our own steam, so they herd us like sheep. They brainwash us into believing that we could not live, indeed we would die, without their system of control. The … Continue reading
More misappliance of science
In the summer you expect jams on the A303 because of man-made bottlenecks, i.e. dual-carriageways funneling into single. But nearing the end of a mega jam the other day, I saw it was due to something else: traffic lights at a roundabout. … Continue reading
Speed rap
They say that any publicity is good publicity. I’m not so sure. Anyway, it’s out there, so it might as well be on here. One news story here, another here.
Cable (and) cars
In the Guardian (21 May), Vince Cable warned about the scale of economic decline and the coming squeeze. He stressed the time and pain required to rebuild our broken economic model. He predicts the impact on living standards will come … Continue reading
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Tagged Martin Cassini, spending cuts, traffic system reform, Vince Cable
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Dissing and disabling us
The Observer has an article about indoor pursuits and health+safety fears causing a decline in the physical strength of children. Similarly, by prohibiting autonomous acts, traffic controls weaken our ability to make decisions. Increasingly, pedestrians and drivers are incapable of crossing … Continue reading
The point of Poynton
Traffic control produces congestion, pollutes the planet, kills the joy, sucks tens of billions from the public purse, makes roads dangerous, and yes, kills children. Spontaneous lights-out-of-action events and lights-off trials show that humans are more than capable of negotiating … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Hamilton-Baillie, Howard Murray, Poynton, TfL, traffic control
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Huhne in another context
Whether Chris Huhne tried to pass the buck or not, his saga reveals the contortions to which citizens can be driven to escape the tentacles of a system that values the letter of the law above the spirit. Speed does not kill. … Continue reading
The anti-social network
The traffic control system.
