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Demands for a public inquiry
Michael Rosen is demanding a public enquiry into the government’s handling of Covid-19. “We desperately need an inquiry into how and why this lethal idea [alleged experimenting with herd immunity without vaccination] was taken seriously. We owe it to the dead … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Grant Shapps, Martin Cassini, Michael Rosen, road safety, traffic policy
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Anonymous executioners
Deaths on “smart” motorways – where the hard shoulder is opened for use at 70mph – reached their highest level in 2019. Article here. The destruction is completely avoidable. One obvious solution is to open the lanes on straight stretches … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Grant Shapps, smart motorways, the DfT
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Admission
Use of motorway hard shoulders without safeguards was “entirely wrong”, admitted Grant Shapps. Article here. Are corporate manslaughter charges being brought? When pigs fly. Thirty-eight (38) avoidable deaths later and untold trauma to survivors, the anonymous perpetrators of the current … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Grant Shapps, Highways England, Jim O'Sullivan, Martin Cassini, smart motorways
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More misdirected govt funds
“Why fund one special interest group at the expense of others? You could make roads safe for ALL users, and maintain freedom of choice, by replacing priority with equality as the central rule of the road, as explained at equalitystreets.com“. … Continue reading
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Tagged cycling, Equality Streets, Grant Shapps, IEA, Martin Cassini, rules of the road, seeing red, street design, Transport Minister
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Blithering Boris
When you know about a subject, you are usually dismayed by the media’s portrayal or politicians’ grasp of it. Boris’s self-satisfied vauntings about his transport infrastructure plans are no exception. “Tree-dappled” my foot! What a disappointing bunch they are, Johnson, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Johnson, Equality Streets, Grant Shapps, HS2, Martin Cassini, transport and infrastructure
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Calling Grant Shapps!
When I first blogged about HS2, in 2012, the estimated cost was £32bn. Today a leaked report put the figure at £106bn. Grant Shapps, show your mettle and stamp it out now, and talk to me about how to spend … Continue reading
