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Tag Archives: Martin Cassini
Exhaust deaths
The Commons Environment Committee has confirmed something we already knew: that annually there are 4,000 premature deaths in London attributable to poor air quality caused largely by traffic. Nationwide, the figure is 30,000. Also quoted on The Today Programme was the … Continue reading
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Tagged Environment Committee, Joan Walley, Martin Cassini, No Idle Matter, Today Programme
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Greening not green
The outgoing transport minister didn’t even reply to my overtures when the Coalition took office. Any hope that his replacement, Justine Greening, would present an open ear were scotched when she said on R4 that transport “offers great challenges and opportunities, … Continue reading
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Tagged high speed rail, HS2, Justine Greening, Martin Cassini, Philip Hammond
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Censored
Interesting to see authorities and media lumped together in this Guardian piece about the Wall St protests. I’ve been doing it for some time re. my efforts at traffic system reform, which are falling on stony ground in both government … Continue reading
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Tagged censorship, Kenneth Todd, Martin Cassini, traffic system reform
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New traffic lights – old mistakes
Traffic lights are being installed at a T-junction near Bideford despite my proposal for a less expensive, safer FiT (filter-in-turn) solution. Story here.
Kind cuts
Amid the claims about the inevitability of painful cuts, I’ve lost count of the number of times over the past couple of years that I’ve pitched to editors an article that explains the scope in traffic system reform for painless cuts of tens … Continue reading
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Tagged Kenneth Todd, Martin Cassini, painless cuts, traffic system reform
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Traffic lights off at night?
The Bristol Evening Post asked for my views about switching off traffic lights at night to save energy. Article here. The full text of my reply was: In a sense, any advance on the current system of mandatory traffic lights is better … Continue reading
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Tagged Bristol Evening Post, Martin Cassini, traffic lights off at night
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Naughtie but too nice?
In the news today: cuts in government subsidies to local bus services, i.e. a kick in the teeth for the people, against a backdrop of abysmal existing provision, punitive parking controls in towns, and government obsession with a £60bn hi-speed … Continue reading
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Tagged James Naughtie, Martin Cassini, Today Programme, traffic control, traffic system reform
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Is street design enough?
Ben Hamilton-Baillie, street designer and proponent of shared space (he penned the phrase), thinks streetscape redesign is enough on its own, and that streets are designed to express a social context, road-users will instinctively start behaving sociably. I accept that to a degree, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Hamilton-Baillie, Equality Streets, GDA, Guide Dogs, Martin Cassini, shared space, shared surfaces
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Speed rap
They say that any publicity is good publicity. I’m not so sure. Anyway, it’s out there, so it might as well be on here. One news story here, another here.
Cable (and) cars
In the Guardian (21 May), Vince Cable warned about the scale of economic decline and the coming squeeze. He stressed the time and pain required to rebuild our broken economic model. He predicts the impact on living standards will come … Continue reading
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Tagged Martin Cassini, spending cuts, traffic system reform, Vince Cable
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