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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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Put away my pen?
Is my work done? With the announcement that the DfT is planning to introduce a new hierarchy of road-users (which I’ve proposed for years, and briefed four Roads Ministers on), with vulnerable users at the top, and the mightiest at … Continue reading
Mugged by the system
During a perfectly safe overtaking manoeuvre on an otherwise empty dual lane stretch of the A361 Link Rd, I’m clocked doing 73 in a 60 by a concealed radar gun. The road is clear and the weather fine. No harm … Continue reading
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Tagged A361, DfT, Equality Streets, Link Road, speeding, statutory traffic law, traffic law, transport ministers
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Abuse
In the market town of Barnstaple recently, as I crossed Pilton Causeway on foot through slow-moving traffic, I was honked at aggressively (the guy must’ve held down his horn for about ten hours). The reason for the driver’s wrath was … Continue reading
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Tagged Department for Transport, DfT, Equality Streets, Roads minister, Transport Secretary
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Central to the reforming agenda of Equality Streets is a shift in the balance of power in favour of the pedestrian, the child, the vulnerable road-user. Why should they wait for traffic to clear or lights to change, inhaling the … Continue reading
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Tagged DfT, Equality Streets, Malino Wilson, rules of the road, Transport Minister
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Road rage v road sage?
On most things to do with street design and road-user relationships, Ben Hamilton-Baillie and I are of one mind, but we diverge on one point. He says street design alone can achieve the desired behaviour change – from war to … Continue reading
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Tagged DfT, Equality Streets, Jesse Norman, Martin Cassini, road rage
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Mugged by ministerial apathy and negligence
The woman below, a talented musician, was crossing the road with her child outside her home, when she was hit by a car. She managed to push the child to safety. She needed 21 stitches in her head. Would this … Continue reading
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Tagged DfT, equality, Equality Streets, Jesse Norman, priority, road safety, Roads minister, Transport Minister
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Abuse
I’m trying to make roads safe, cut emissions and save the country 100s of £billions. Meanwhile the bodies who run the abusive system – the DfT, local traffic authorities, councils, MPs, Roads and Transport Ministers – resist reform and pursue … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, abuse of power, DfT, Equality Streets, MPs, Roads minister, Transport Minister
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Inadequate traffic authorities
The current driving test is predicated on anti-social priority. Advice and practice stem from that odious premise, so the driving test unleashes cohorts of barbaric drivers onto our barbaric roads. The Highway Code says pedestrians have priority at junctions. This … Continue reading
