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Sweet FA?
The FA demands respect when it should be earning it. How can you respect an organisation that fails so abjectly to adopt umpiring techniques that have been available since the advent of TV action replay? In the same way, how … Continue reading
Heavy duty control
No doubt traffic engineers puff with pride at their ability to apportion equal green time to the multiple movements at interchanges such as Vauxhall Cross and Trafalgar Square (6 secs per min). Does it bother them that their complex algorithms … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Trafalgar Square, traffic control, Vauxhall Cross, wisdom of crowds
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Google + Equality Streets v the TCD
High on Google’s list of good management tips is “empower your team and don’t micromanage.” If the TCD (traffic control dictatorship) had a list, its core directive would no doubt be the polar opposite, along the lines of “stamp on initiative, … Continue reading
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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