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No traffic controls = civilised streets
Below is a link to some early 20th-century footage shot from a tram progressing along a US city street teeming with people on foot, horse-drawn carts, motor vehicles, trams – all human life is here, in all its beautiful, harmonious … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Hamilton-Baillie, East Cheshire Council, Equality Streets, FiT Roads
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Today and Ed – joint shame?
The Today Programme’s big interview this morning was Ed Miliband. So now we know what Labour would do about the deficit. Or do we? All I gleaned was that Ed would spread cuts over four years, “and go out and ask the people … Continue reading
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Tagged Ed Miliband, Martin Cassini, The Today Programme, traffic system reform
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Verdict in bus driver case
Blackfriars Crown Court is near me, so in the hope of a word with the defence, I cycled over, thinking the bus driver was as much a victim as the poor dead cyclist. The catastrophic event will haunt the driver … Continue reading
Another cyclist killed at traffic lights
A 22-year-old student, Dorothy Elder, met a terrible end on 11 November 2009 at the junction of Southampton Row and Holborn. Bus driver, Leola Burte, is facing a charge of dangerous driving. The bus was stationary at red when Dorothy … Continue reading
TfL and efficiency?
In TfL’s annual report, Boris Johnson and Peter Hendy trumpet efficiency savings of £5bn. Can we infer that over the years, they have been overspending by £5bn? In view of the high-cost traffic controls they cherish, from congestion charging to pedestrian countdown, the … Continue reading
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Egyptian Roads
Egypt shows there is infinite appetite for freedom and cooperation. Give people responsibility, and by and large they won’t let you down. They don’t need protecting from themselves and each other; they need protecting from interventionists who impose totalitarian systems. Like Egyptians, we want a … Continue reading
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Tagged autocratic-control, democratic-contract, Egypt, traffic-lights
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Equality not priority
If, instead of rule by priority (a traffic engineering model), we lived by values of equality (a social model), then the parts of the current system that clash – above all safety and efficiency – would mesh. Like shuffling cards, … Continue reading
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Road signs are signs of failure
Most instructional road signs are signs of failure; failure to forge a culture that stimulates empathy, and failure to design roads in a way that stimulates considerate conduct. Official fixation with control = official neglect of civilised solutions based on equality … Continue reading
Am I a “knobhead”?
On our way to Sunday lunch on 1 August, I was crossing Fore Street, Ilfracombe, by the acute-angled junction with the High Street. Suddenly, a Vauxhall Corsa appeared from around the blind corner, and stopped to let me go. My … Continue reading
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Wisdom from The Little Prince
“It is only the heart that can see clearly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – St Exupéry. Instructional road signs are constantly in your face. Empathy is invisible.
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