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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
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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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Tagged Equality Streets, Martin Cassini, road accidents, road safety, rules of the road
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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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Highways to Hell
This was a programme on Radio 4 on 4 Jan 2026, produced by Jonathan Brunert. Like every other BBC programme I’ve seen or heard about traffic congestion, it missed the point – that the main cause of congestion (and “accidents”!) … 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
Old post
Just came across an old blogging site I used to use. It doesn’t seem fully functional, which isn’t surprising as it’s 16 years since I wrote this post (dated 2.3.2009): Depressing announcement from the Association of Chief Police Officers. They … Continue reading
ULEZ. Who should we believe?
The idea that Sadiq Khan would distort the findings of Imperial College about the effects of the Ultra Low Emission Zone, or that Imperial’s research could be “bought” smacks to me of conspiracy theory. What I do know is that … Continue reading
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Tagged air quality, coercive control, Equality Streets, Martin Cassini, Sadiq Khan, ULEZ
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To prove a point
ULEZ has cut NO2 levels in the capital significantly, reports the Telegraph. Air quality monitoring at Hither Green Lane and Catford, near Ella Aloo-Kissi-Debrah’s home, show NO2 has fallen by over 50% since 2012, with half that taking place since … Continue reading
