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Ironies in the fire
It’s bizarre that some see my call for equality-based reform of the traffic system as mad, dangerous or counterintuitive. If you were devising the system from scratch, would you make children responsible for their own safety, or would you put … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Martin Cassini, rules of the road, traffic system
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Current system v Equality Streets
Current traffic system = coercive control, conflict, aggression, injustice, harm, misery. Equality Streets = sociable interaction, cooperation, quality of life and space, happiness.
Slaughterhouse 30,000pa
If I’m right – that the traffic system is intrinsically dangerous, and largely responsible for 30,000 avoidable casualties a year, as well as death and ill-health from poor air quality – then the perpetrators of the system, forever in denial, … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate manslaughter, Equality Streets, Kinder Streets, traffic policy, traffic system
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Coercive state control
The state is expected to apologise for enforced adoption, which involved about 186,000 families. When will the state acknowledge, apologise for and above all agree to change the traffic system which for a century and to this day claims 30,000 … Continue reading
BBC Rethink, The City Streets
This episode of BBC Radio 4’s series Rethink, broadcast on 18.6.2026, featured traffic engineer, Keith Firth of NRP; me, Martin Cassini, campaigner for traffic system reform; Sohanna Srinivasan, Urban Planning Design at north Herts Council; and Dutch author, Marco te … Continue reading
Facebook post from 2013
If I’m right: that the edifice of traffic control, based as it is on anti-social priority, is flawed and misguided; and that self-control on streets designed for equality are safer and more efficient than streets governed by priority and signals, … Continue reading
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Traffic system reform according to AI search
Into my search engine, now assisted by AI, I entered “traffic system reform”. This came up: “The UK government is implementing major reforms to road safety legislation, including mandatory eye tests for older drivers and a potential reduction in the … Continue reading
Lollipops
In Brecht’s play, Galileo chooses an agreeable old age rather than torture and death at the hands of an outraged papacy. So he recants his finding that the Earth is round. His disciple, Andreas, laments: “Pity the world that is … Continue reading
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Tagged Brecht, Equality Streets, Galileo, Life of Galileo, lollipop men and women, Reg Brown
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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
