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Air quality post-Corona
The lockdown means less traffic and less polluted air. But 45,000 sets of traffic lights still operate, producing 57,000 tons of CO2 every year, just from the electricity that powers them. Rarely reported is that lights produce congestion by blocking … Continue reading
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More policy inanity
The congestion charge exemption for sub-75 g/km vehicles ends in Oct 2021, and from 2025, zero emissions cars will lose their exemption too. Sadiq Khan’s rationale? Traffic pollution damages health and development. We know that. But zero emissions cars emit … Continue reading
DfT and ministerial negligence
A government paper announces funding for local authorities to ‘tackle air pollution’. One of its grotesquely overdue measures is to ‘adjust traffic signals to cut congestion’. So the paper is an open admission that traffic lights contribute to 40,000 premature deaths a … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Jesse Norman, the DfT, Thérèse Coffey, traffic-lights
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Another avoidable road death
Report here. To blame for this road death, of course, is the malign system of priority. Once again, of course, the perpetrators of the system will get away with what amounts to manslaughter. The onus for road safety should be on … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, road death, road safety, Sakine Cihan, traffic-lights
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Media apathy or censorship?
Yesterday I emailed several BBC news programmes and national newspapers the following. So far zero response: So there will be no Brexit dividend, and we face tax increases to fund the NHS. Meanwhile, a fount of public money, currently … Continue reading
Dysfunctional system promotes delinquency
I was halfway across a High Street junction on foot, and got hooted at by a driver turning right. The Highway Code says drivers should give way to pedestrians at junctions. But the driver had a green light, so he … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, road rage, road safety, rules of the road, traffic-lights
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We are victims of obsessive officialdom
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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Tagged Equality Streets, rules of the road, traffic officers, traffic policy, traffic-lights
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Sayle agreed
Alexei Sayle in this month’s Prospect Magazine: “If I ruled the world … I would remove 80% of the traffic lights … at a junction in France or Spain, there will be four lights, one at each corner … at … Continue reading
Seeing red
Today’s Mail on Sunday piece about an IEA Paper I co-authored with Richard Wellings twisted our work to fit some anti-Green agenda. The Paper and my accompanying polemic (Companion piece) can be found here at the Press tab.
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Tagged IEA Report, Martin Cassini, Richard Wellings, seeing red, traffic-lights
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