Tag Archives: Equality Streets

Invisible, ignored, baleful

Posted on 23rd November 2017 by Martin Cassini

“£12bn in welfare cuts to come”, says Paul Johnson of the IFS, “and billions more in other public service cuts. This is not the end of austerity.” Like everyone else, this economic guru is ignorant of the case for kind … Continue reading →

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We are victims of obsessive officialdom

Posted on 3rd November 2017 by Martin Cassini

Driving through Barnstaple yesterday (on electric), I think I surprised the driver behind me. At a pedestrian crossing where the lights had just changed against the people on foot, I waited at green for them to cross. They waved in … Continue reading →

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Cuts, air quality, and how Sadiq Khan has it wrong

Posted on 26th October 2017 by Martin Cassini

While the public spending axe falls left, right and centre – this week it was MoD cuts – a thick seam of beneficial cuts lies neglected. I’m talking about traffic control: a field of vast public expenditure which is vexatious, … Continue reading →

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Socially speaking

Posted on 19th October 2017 by Martin Cassini

Socially speaking, road signs, road regulation and road markings are designed to make us do the wrong thing. You were there first? So what? The rules give me right of way over you, so tough! Thus pedestrians and toddlers in … Continue reading →

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Enforcement or education?

Posted on 19th October 2017 by Martin Cassini

Retrospective enforcement (apparently supported by Brake!), or preventative education? The government proposes stiffer sentences for drivers who kill. As is usual in the illiterate field of traffic policy, this is a case of shutting the stable door after the horse … Continue reading →

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Ignorance is no excuse; inaction is abuse

Posted on 9th October 2017 by Martin Cassini

Opponents of my reforms are in effect supporters of the current system, which presides over an annual casualty toll of 24,000 souls, many of them children. Ministers, the DfT and local traffic authorities, who back the system, don’t even have … Continue reading →

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In conversation …

Posted on 4th October 2017 by Martin Cassini

… about transforming life on the roads with novelist, Karen Millie James, at lunchtime today on her radio show: http://www.sg1radio.co.uk/karenliveatone

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Criticism where due

Posted on 14th August 2017 by Martin Cassini

I’m critical of traffic officers and policymakers because they oppose change and support a system which is intrinsically dangerous, anti-social and inefficient. It steals our time, damages our health and well-being, defaces streetscapes, and kills our children. Brutality, sociopathy and … Continue reading →

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The mistitled Equalities Commission

Posted on 27th May 2017 by Martin Cassini

Mistitled, because it backs an unequal, inequitable traffic system. Brief response to the call by the Equalities Commission for a moratorium on shared space: here.

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Censorship?

Posted on 6th April 2017 by Martin Cassini

I’ve lost count of the times I’ve pitched these ideas, to no avail, to the likes of The Today Programme. Likewise, my latest pitch about air quality, emailed today to two people at Newsnight and two at The Times, has … Continue reading →

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