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Getting rid of the nasty stuff
Most PM2.5 – the nasty airborne particles that we inhale and can lodge in lungs, heart and bloodstream, causing all manner of disease – now comes from brake dust and tyre wear, not tailpipes, says Prof Alastair Lewis, chair of … Continue reading
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Tagged air quality, Equality Streets, Martin Cassini, PM2.5, Prof Alastair Lewis, ULEZ
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ULEZ debacle
ULEZ = paying for the right to pollute. Where is the sense in that? Of course we want clean air but there is a way to achieve greater cuts in emissions without coercion and without pain.
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Tagged clean air, cutting emissions, Equality Streets, Martin Cassini, Sadiq Khan, ULEZ
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No you Khan’t! Yes I can!
Does Sadiq Khan think he’s the only politician who wants clean air? Who doesn’t want it, O pious Mayor? There is of course a way of achieving the aim without the pain. It would bring a host of accompanying benefits too. Followers … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, London mayor, Martin Cassini, Sadiq Khan, ULEZ, Uxbridge by-election
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Latest swipe at the system
With my usual proposals for change. In Transport Watch.
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Tagged Equality Streets, Martin Cassini, Richard Wellings, Transport Watch
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Apathy at BH?
I’ve whinged before about the failure of the BBC to respond to my attempts to air the ideas expounded here. I just came across an email I sent Radio 4’s Today Programme on 4.2.22. Like countless others, it didn’t even … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, Equality Streets, Martin Cassini, pedestrian safety, road safety, Today Programme
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Sunak’s “sin”
Professor John Adams challenges the safety claims made for seat belts. The safer you feel inside your insulated cabin, the more likely you are to take risks and endanger other road-users. So the cause of road safety would be better … Continue reading
One-eyed man in the country of the blind
Difficult, even eye-watering choices, Jeremy Hunt? No, there is low-hanging fruit that experts, politicians and media folk routinely overlook, a field of public spending that consumes tens of billions to universal detriment. This public disservice somehow slips below the radar of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Chu, efficiency savings, Equality Streets, Martin Cassini, Newsnight, PM, spending suts, Today
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Cuts – the usual suspects
Radio 4’s PM wheels on various guests about possible spending cuts. Yesterday it was Mel Stride MP and Paul Johnson of the IFS. Today it was Paul Scully, Minister for local govt. “Where there is any fat,” asks Evan Davis, … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Evan Davis, Martin Cassini, Paul Scully, PM, spending cuts, TfL
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Re-directing £6m?
Following email correspondence in which I proposed pedestrian priority for Minehead, I had a meeting on 7 September 2022 with LibDem county councillor for transport, Mike Rigby. He played devil’s advocate, but I discussed objections, and followed up with further … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Martin Cassini, Mike Rigby, Taunton, traffic-lights
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London’s lethal air quality
The advice from Greenpeace and Sadiq Khan is to avoid wood-burning stoves and non-essential driving. They miss what is arguably the chief cause: coercive traffic control. By making us stop, idle and restart, endlessly, needlessly, the system maximises emissions, brake … Continue reading
