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60mph on motorways
New 60mph limits are being imposed on stretches of the motorway network, “to cut levels of nitrogen dioxide”, says Highways England. Highways England is the state-run agency that promoted the use of hard shoulders – at some locations, can you believe, … Continue reading
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Tagged 60mph on motorways, hard shoulders, Highways England, Jim O'Sullivan
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Totally totalitarian?
On the Today Programme, that eminent scourge of totalitarianism, former High Court Judge, Lord Sumption, challenged edicts restricting freedom of movement and assembly. If a 75 year-old chooses to see her grandchildren and risk possible infection, rather than shut herself … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Lord Sumption, Today Programme, traffic policy
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At last?
Cambridge has built a new roundabout embodying the change in hierarchy that usually happens when traffic lights are out of action. It seems to be the breakthrough I’ve been advocating for two decades. The desired shift in the balance of … Continue reading
Misuse of public funds
The government announces a 2bn spend on protected cycle lanes. It claims to be treating causes not symptoms, yet is leaving the the fatal flaw at the heart of the system – priority – untreated. Promoting one mode at the … Continue reading
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Tagged cycle lanes, Equality Streets, inequality, public funds, road safety
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50 to 60
The speed limit along motorway works is being raised from 50 to 60. They ‘needed’ a year-long study to show we can drive in a straight line at 60 in perfect safety. Policymaking in the traffic field is puerile and … Continue reading
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Tagged 50mph, 60mph, Equality Streets, Motorway speed limits
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Govian sense overruled
On the subject of making it compulsory to wear a mask in enclosed public places, Michael Gove said it’s always best to trust people’s commonsense. Agreed. So why are we forbidden from using commonsense about when or what speed to go? … Continue reading
More misdirected govt funds
“Why fund one special interest group at the expense of others? You could make roads safe for ALL users, and maintain freedom of choice, by replacing priority with equality as the central rule of the road, as explained at equalitystreets.com“. … Continue reading
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Tagged cycling, Equality Streets, Grant Shapps, IEA, Martin Cassini, rules of the road, seeing red, street design, Transport Minister
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KO’d by a traffic light
In a violent end to last night’s anti-racist demo in Whitehall, a police officer was knocked off her horse and sustained a head injury from … a frigging traffic light! And those WMD – weapons of mass distraction, danger and … Continue reading
Sorry – the easiest word?
The Public Accounts Committee has criticised senior DfT officials for failing to come clean about the spiralling cost of HS2. Apparently they have said sorry and will do better in the future. Well that’s that then.
