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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
Idiot Minds
In this Mail article (thanks to FFDF for posting), a “spokesperson” for Sadiq Khan claims the major cause of urban congestion is roadworks. Not in my observation and experience. The chief cause of congestion (and to paraphrase Joni Mitchell, I’ve … Continue reading
“Accidents” and corporate manslaughter
One of my sayings is, “Most accidents are not accidents. They are events contrived by the rules and design of the road.” Recent fatal “accidents” in Wales involving teenage men prompt me to add “an inadequate driving test.” It’s absurd … Continue reading
Darling proposal
Warm tributes for Alistair Darling today. I remember his daft proposal to add a fourth lane to the M25 to ease congestion. Imagine the cost/disruption! Far simpler to teach drivers to use the inside lane except when overtaking, thus freeing up … Continue reading
A Common Sense of Place
Following an enquiry from Watertown, Massachusetts, I re-viewed A Common Sense of Place, a short video we made eight (8!) years ago featuring the late great Ben Hamilton-Baillie. It’s worth a look. If I let myself think about it, it makes … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Hamilton-Baillie, Equality Streets, Maniac Films, Watertown Mass.
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Google and Manchester lagging behind …
Thanks to Angela West for sending me this. As she said in her email, “why are people suddenly repeating what you’ve been saying for years?”
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Would Adam Smith have despised traffic control?
“Adam Smith excoriated the man of system who tries to control people and suppress human individuality and freedom”. That’s from a book by Jesse Norman serialised this week on Radio 4. So I reckon the answer to the question, Would … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Equality Streets, Jesse Norman, traffic control
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