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Delinquent rules produce delinquent fools
Sunday 8 Feb 2026. I was on this courtesy crossing when a van driver cut me off and yelled, “Wtf do you think you’re doing!” I said I’m on a crossing. “It’s not a f+g zebra, so I don’t have … Continue reading
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Tagged courtesy crossings, Equality Streets, Martin Cassini, road rage, road safety, zebra crossings
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Cutting stop-go traffic – AI or Equality Streets?
Google develops AI “to tackle some of society’s biggest challenges in a responsible way. For example, we use AI to: Support efforts to curb climate change, like reducing stop-and-go traffic to lower vehicle emissions. Equality without traffic control (except for … Continue reading
Pitiful analysis
The Today Programme, 11 August 2025. Discussion prompted by government announcing that 3-year eye tests are to be introduced for drivers aged 70+. The BBC wheeled in the usual spokesperson, Edmund King, formerly with the RAC, now “President” of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmund King, Equality Streets, Justin Webb, Martin Cassini, Today Programme
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Bureaucracy kills the joy
One of my themes is how over-regulation makes life on the roads a misery when it could be a pleasure. Bureaucracy too can kill the joy. From Freedom for Drivers Foundation: The FT on planning impediments to a major congestion-cutting … Continue reading
Equality Streets
When the regulatory framework of traffic control is removed, as when traffic lights break down, we rediscover our humanity and make common cause. As soon as we are free from the coercive control that prevents infinite filtering opportunities and expressions … Continue reading
The power of platforms
The commotion over Allison Pearson’s non-hate crime investigation by Essex Police for a deleted tweet highlights the unequal power enjoyed by those with a public platform. In her critique of police time wasted on a thought crime instead of real … Continue reading
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Tagged Allison Pearson, Equality Streets, speeding, the law is an ass, Them and Us, traffic regulation
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Drop in the ocean
The AA calls for graduated driving licences for young drivers with a 6 month moratorium on carrying passengers their own age. It’s a gesture in the right direction but a drop in the ocean. We need wholesale reform of the … Continue reading
Falling on deaf ears
Annual casualties on our roads are equivalent to more than one Grenfell a day. Yet while Grenfell gets blanket media coverage, 30,000 equally avoidable road casualties – given that my umpteenth pitch to the Press has just been ignored – … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Grenfell, road casualties, road safety
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Ministerial mess – corporate manslaughter
Updated in July 2024, the DfT’s accredited “accident” statistics reveal that 29,643 human beings were killed or seriously injured in 2023. It’s an estimate of the number of personal injury road traffic casualties in Great Britain reported by the police … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate manslaughter, DfT, driving test, Equality Streets, road accidents, scandal, STATS19, traffic accidents
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Never the carrot
This post, which reiterates stuff I’ve written before, but bears repetition, was prompted by news that transport minister, Louise Haigh, intends to fund more cycle lanes (which as a cyclist I dislike). Most if not all coercive traffic interventions are … Continue reading
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Tagged cycle lanes, Equality Streets, Louise Haigh, traffic authorities, Transport Minister
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