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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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Tagged air quality, congestion, Equality Streets, traffic-lights
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The unbearable crassness of agreeing
In his report from Antarctica on Radio 4’s From our Own Correspondent, Justin Rowlatt shed tears at the collapsing ice-sheet. Yet still he found a reason to hope. He concluded that humanity’s defining characteristic is not belligerence but cooperation. Precisely. … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, ice-sheet, Justin Rowlatt, traffic system reform
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Corona bullet points
We’re safer in our cars than on public transport – another reason for scrapping HS2 and using the money to transform our road infrastructure along the lines advocated here. Corona also shows, as if we didn’t already know, that a … Continue reading
Simple messages
Sadiq Khan thinks 20mph will banish accidents and serious injuries on London’s roads. Obviously no bad thing if it does. But would you want to be hit by a bus doing 20? Nor would I. These people see things in … Continue reading
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Tagged 20mph, driving by context, driving by numbers, Equality Streets, Martin Cassini, Sadiq Khan
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Another pitch to the Press
No doubt you heard about the Max Planck study which found that poor air quality is a greater threat to life than war, malaria, HIV or smoking. Replacing conventional traffic control with freedom to filter at low speeds and low … Continue reading
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Tagged air quality, Equality Streets, Jos Lelieveld, Martin Cassini, Max Planck study, pollution, Thomas Münzel
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Abuse Part 94
Interminable airtime is given over to child sexual abuse, but despite endless pitches to the Today Programme and other media outlets, state abuse involving over 20,000 avoidable deaths and life-changing injuries on our roads, annually, don’t get a look-in.
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Tagged corporate manslaughter, Equality Streets, The Today Programme, traffic control
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Death penalty for “jaywalking”!
18 March 2018. The woman killed by a driverless car, Elaine Herzberg, 49, was crossing the road outside a designated crosswalk. The AI machine had only learned to detect pedestrians on crosswalks! So human error/stupidity and system error/stupidity killed her, … Continue reading
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Tagged driverless car, Elaine Herzberg, Equality Streets, road accident, road death
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Blithering Boris
When you know about a subject, you are usually dismayed by the media’s portrayal or politicians’ grasp of it. Boris’s self-satisfied vauntings about his transport infrastructure plans are no exception. “Tree-dappled” my foot! What a disappointing bunch they are, Johnson, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Johnson, Equality Streets, Grant Shapps, HS2, Martin Cassini, transport and infrastructure
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HSPoo
So the HS2 juggernaut set in motion by Adonis is going ahead. Johnson lacked the balls to pull the plug. Over £100 billion, which could be invested so much more constructively elsewhere, will be sunk into ripping up pristine countryside … Continue reading
Agency abuse
More negligence in traffic policy emerged with the news that in the last five years, 38 avoidable deaths have occurred on the hard shoulder, or emergency lane, of “smart” motorways. An increase in capacity should not entail an increase in … Continue reading
