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Apathy from on high
On the Today Programme, oncologist Prof Pat Price rightly criticised the backlog of cancer patients waiting for tests or treatent, and called for radical action. Meanwhile, I scream in the dark about the dysfunctional rules of the road which continue to … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Professor Pat Price, Today Programme, traffic system reform
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Abuse abuse abuse
Abuse is a buzzword these days. How does the state get away with such abuse of our rights in the fields of parking, “speeding”, and coercive control generally on the roads? It’s all an abuse of our time, our intelligence, … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, Equality Streets, rules of the road, traffic officers, traffic regulation
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The air we breathe and state ignorance
As if we didn’t already know, the government-funded Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants has reported a definite link between exhaust emissions and the rise in dementia. No doubt there will be calls to ban cars, and higher … Continue reading
Kangaroo justice
Nottingham Police and crime commissioner, Caroline Henry, has received a 6-month ban and a £2450 fine after breaking the limit five times in 12 weeks. Serves her right, you might think. After all, she had pledged to crack down on … Continue reading
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(Rigid) rules for fools
Should Notts Crime Commissioner, Caroline Henry, resign over her 5 “speeding” offences? No. The anonymous fools who make us drive by numbers instead of context should. And the puerile numbers rule should be changed. A US study found that drivers … Continue reading
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Tagged BRAKE!, Caroline Henry, Crime Commissioner, Equality Streets, speeding
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Censored again?
Last week I pitched the following to PM and Today. As usual, no response. Am I being censored, do they not read emails, or do they only respond to non-controversial material? If as road-users, on foot or on wheels, we … Continue reading
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Tagged congestion charging, Equality Streets, PM, road pricing, Today Programme
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Killer Roads?
How can an investigative documentary with the pedigree of Panorama fail so dismally in its investigation? One cliché after another followed as the programme sought to account for the trending increase in road “accidents”. The key interviewee was HM Inspector … Continue reading
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Increase in road accidents is due to …
Panorama tonight is to feature commentators who blame the increase in road accidents on cuts in traffic police and speed cameras. Will they mention the inadequate driving test and counterproductive traffic regulation? Doubtful.
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London’s lethal air quality
The advice from Greenpeace and Sadiq Khan is to avoid wood-burning stoves and non-essential driving. They miss what is arguably the chief cause: coercive traffic control. By making us stop, idle and restart, endlessly, needlessly, the system maximises emissions, brake … Continue reading
The cult of traffic control
On File on 4 (23.11.21), Dr Alexandra Stein of the Family Survival Trust, a charity which supports victims of cults and coercive control, defined cults as having “an authoritarian leadership group, an isolating and steeply hierarchical structure, an absolute belief … Continue reading
