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The Fluke of Edinburgh
It probably was a fluke that the Duke survived the crash at the junction on the A149. Consider the dilemma. You’re on a minor road. You arrive at a junction. You are faced with streams of traffic coming at you … Continue reading
Clean air “strategy”
The government’s clean air strategy aims to halve harmful emissions by 2025. It plans to ban wood burning stoves and ammonia from farm fertilisers, but abdicates responsibility for vehicle emissions to Local Traffic Authorities. Equality on the roads is the … Continue reading
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Tagged clean air strategy, emissions, Equality Streets, government, traffic contol
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Road rage v road sage?
On most things to do with street design and road-user relationships, Ben Hamilton-Baillie and I are of one mind, but we diverge on one point. He says street design alone can achieve the desired behaviour change – from war to … Continue reading
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Tagged DfT, Equality Streets, Jesse Norman, Martin Cassini, road rage
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Mugged by ministerial apathy and negligence
This woman, a talented musician, was attacked outside her home. She was crossing the road with her child, when she was hit by a car. She managed to push the child to safety. She needed 21 stitches in her head. … Continue reading
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Tagged DfT, equality, Equality Streets, Jesse Norman, priority, road safety, Roads minister, Transport Minister
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DfT and ministerial negligence
A government paper announces funding for local authorities to ‘tackle air pollution’. One of its grotesquely overdue measures is to ‘adjust traffic signals to cut congestion’. So the paper is an open admission that traffic lights contribute to 40,000 premature deaths a … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Jesse Norman, the DfT, Thérèse Coffey, traffic-lights
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Voice in the wilderness
Last year there were 240 deaths from drink driving. Richard Allsop of the RAC Foundation estimates there would be 25 fewer deaths if the drink-drive limit were cut from .08 to .05. The story made the news, but the numbers … Continue reading
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Tagged drink driving, drink-drive limit, Equality Streets, RAC Foundation, Richard Allsop, road deaths
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Corporate manslaughter
It’s well-known that dirty urban air causes lung, heart and developmental damage, but increasingly it’s being linked to brain damage. The Times didn’t break the news but covered it on 19 September under the front page headline, “Dementia soars in … Continue reading
The goons (the unfunny ones)
I diverge on only one point with street designer, Ben Hamilton-Baillie. He thinks street redesign alone can bring about the desired behaviour change from hostility to civility, or danger to safety. I’ve always thought it should be preceded by, or … Continue reading
Another avoidable road death
Report here. To blame for this road death, of course, is the malign system of priority. Once again, of course, the perpetrators of the system will get away with what amounts to manslaughter. The onus for road safety should be on … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, road death, road safety, Sakine Cihan, traffic-lights
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State-sponsored neglect
Last week I saw a woman with two toddlers trying to cross Portland Road at the east end of Ilfracombe High St. For a full two minutes, a stream of drivers ignored them, including a district councillor I know but … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Ilfracombe, Paul Crabb, priority, traffic system
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