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Current system v Equality Streets
Current traffic system = coercive control, conflict, aggression, injustice, harm, misery. Equality Streets = sociable interaction, cooperation, quality of life and space, happiness.
Slaughterhouse 30,000pa
If I’m right – that the traffic system is intrinsically dangerous, and largely responsible for 30,000 avoidable casualties a year, as well as death and ill-health from poor air quality – then the perpetrators of the system, forever in denial, … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate manslaughter, Equality Streets, Kinder Streets, traffic policy, traffic system
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Coercive state control
The state is expected to apologise for enforced adoption, which involved about 186,000 families. When will the state acknowledge, apologise for and above all agree to change the traffic system which for a century and to this day claims 30,000 … Continue reading
Drop in the ocean
The AA calls for graduated driving licences for young drivers with a 6 month moratorium on carrying passengers their own age. It’s a gesture in the right direction but a drop in the ocean. We need wholesale reform of the … Continue reading
Blinkered Panorama
I stumbled upon a BBC Panorama last night, about the relationship between drivers and cyclists. It covered similar ground to another Panorama (?) that aired a year or two ago, presented by the same Richard Bilton. Like other commentators on … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Karen Wightman, Panorama, Richard Bilton, Rod Liddle, traffic system
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Safety last
Safety features in cars are an admission that collisions are inevitable and conflict is the norm. But if roads were designed for coexistence instead of competition, and we had a worthwhile driving test, conflict would disappear and we’d go without … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, road safety, safety first, safety last, traffic system
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Post Office bad; traffic system diabolical
The scandal of the Post Office’s Horizon system has been called the biggest miscarriage of justice in our peacetime history. It’s bad, but nothing like as bad as the traffic control and enforcement system which has been causing untold injustice … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Post Office, scandal, traffic system
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Abusive traffic policy
Just as the exposure of abuse in the Church must bring penitence and reparation, says Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, so the perpetrators of the traffic system, which causes untold injustice and harm, then blames you and me for the … Continue reading
State-sponsored neglect
Last week I saw a woman with two toddlers trying to cross Portland Road at the east end of Ilfracombe High St. For a full two minutes, a stream of drivers ignored them, including a district councillor I know but … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Ilfracombe, Paul Crabb, priority, traffic system
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Child abuse
The traffic system is based on priority aka inequality. It sets the stage for conflict. It puts vulnerable road-users in danger. It puts the onus on the child to beware the driver, when it could and should be the other … Continue reading
