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Cross about crossing the road!
“You take a risk every time you cross the road,” said Nick Robinson on the Today Prog this morning. It shows how ingrained is unquestioning acceptance of the unacceptable. There should be no risk in crossing the road. It would … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Nick Robinson, road safety, Today Programme
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HS2 v H20
The car is a self-isolating transportation device par excellence. Instead of pouring billions into 19C technology – trains – shouldn’t the state be investing in 21C tech, redesigning the public realm to express equality, eliminating bottlenecks, and creating infrastructure for … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, HS2, hydrogen-powered cars, traffic policy, transport policy
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Another nail in coffin
Brake dust is as bad as diesel for producing tiny particles that penetrate heart, lungs and bloodstream. It may be even worse because it produces them in greater quantities. The stop-start drive cycle caused by traffic lights and priority junctions … Continue reading
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Tagged air quality, brake dust, Equality Streets, traffic control, traffic-lights
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Traffic lights still “working”
One of the photographs in Sophie Raworth’s illustrated narrative about a deserted London shows traffic lights still operating. An opportunity to switch off the lights and save power is being squandered. Of course no heads will roll for this abundant … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Sophie Raworth, traffic-lights, waste
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The overreaching state
A new threat issued from Health Minister, Matthew Hancock, today. The government will introduce stronger measures, e.g. banning exercise outside the home, if “people” continue to flout edicts by foregathering (as distinct from twogathering?). There are parallels with traffic control … Continue reading
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Tagged edict, Equality Streets, government, Matthew Hancock, state control, traffic control
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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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