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The power of platforms
The commotion over Allison Pearson’s non-hate crime investigation by Essex Police for a deleted tweet highlights the unequal power enjoyed by those with a public platform. In her critique of police time wasted on a thought crime instead of real … Continue reading
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Tagged Allison Pearson, Equality Streets, speeding, the law is an ass, Them and Us, traffic regulation
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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
Falling on deaf ears
Annual casualties on our roads are equivalent to more than one Grenfell a day. Yet while Grenfell gets blanket media coverage, 30,000 equally avoidable road casualties – given that my umpteenth pitch to the Press has just been ignored – … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Grenfell, road casualties, road safety
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Ministerial mess – corporate manslaughter
Updated in July 2024, the DfT’s accredited “accident” statistics reveal that 29,643 human beings were killed or seriously injured in 2023. It’s an estimate of the number of personal injury road traffic casualties in Great Britain reported by the police … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate manslaughter, DfT, driving test, Equality Streets, road accidents, scandal, STATS19, traffic accidents
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Never the carrot
This post, which reiterates stuff I’ve written before, but bears repetition, was prompted by news that transport minister, Louise Haigh, intends to fund more cycle lanes (which as a cyclist I dislike). Most if not all coercive traffic interventions are … Continue reading
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Tagged cycle lanes, Equality Streets, Louise Haigh, traffic authorities, Transport Minister
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More coercive control in the public realm
Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has given her “absolute support” to more 20mph zones and LTNs (low traffic neighbourhoods). Funding always seems to be available for coercive, divisive measures, yet re-education and road redesign – the consensual way to calm traffic … Continue reading
An accident?
Now Mike Lynch’s colleague, Stephen Chamberlain, has died in a car “accident”, hit while running. Was it an accident, or an event contrived by the dysfunctional rules of the road? Do investigators take the unequal rules of the road into … Continue reading
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Tagged acccident, car accidents, Equality Streets, Mike Lynch, road accident, Stephen Chamberlain
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Perverting the nature of justice
This Telegraph piece about imprisonment for “perverting the course of justice” by getting someone else to take speeding points has a wider significance. Ill-conceived statutory regulation perverts the very nature of justice. It forbids appeal on grounds of reason. Preventing … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Huhne, Equality Streets, Fiona Onasanya, road regulation, speeding, statutory law
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20mph?
Part of the case for 20mph is that if you’re on foot and hit, you’re less likely to be killed. So it’s OK if you survive with a broken body, is it? Is it beyond the wit of government to … Continue reading
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Tagged 20mph, Equality Streets, road safety, rules of the road, traffic policy
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Dysfunctional rules of the road
On Desert Island Discs (24.3.24), we heard that Professor Alice Roberts was hit by car in her home town of Bristol. She wondered if her “accident” had any bearing on the decision to pedestrianise the street. To me it’s a … Continue reading
