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Priority v Equality
How to make roads dangerous: give main roads priority over pedestrians and side roads. How to make roads safe: make junctions all-way give-ways, with equal rights and equal opportunity. Put the (legal) onus on the driver to beware the vulnerable road-user, … Continue reading
Ingrained abuse
Road “accidents” are the result of the system of priority, which imposes unequal rights and makes roads intrinsically dangerous. The driving test teaches the abuse and neglect that are inherent in the system.
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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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More morons
Jim O’Sullivan of Highways England wants a year to test an increase in the motorway speed limit when no roadworks are in progress, e.g. on Sundays, from 50 to 60. They want another year to consider whether adults, with proof … Continue reading
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Transfiguration
I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again. To transform road safety and transfigure the public realm, we need to reverse the balance of power in favour of the vulnerable. Supported by legal reform, the new hierarchy would make … Continue reading
Getting away with manslaughter
Grenfell’s 73 and Gosport 456 deaths get week-in, week-out media coverage, but the far greater number of casualties on our roads is barely mentioned or remarked upon. It’s as if we accept road casualties as inevitable. They are not. Most … Continue reading
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Not to denigrate Gosport but …
Now there will be wall-to-wall media coverage of the Gosport hospital deaths (from over-prescription of painkillers) in the 1990s – 456 plus possibly another 200. Will the media kick up a similar storm over the 24,000 killed and hurt on … Continue reading
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Child abuse
The traffic system is based on priority aka inequality. It sets the stage for conflict. It puts vulnerable road-users in danger. It puts the onus on the child to beware the driver, when it could and should be the other … Continue reading
Media apathy or censorship?
Yesterday I emailed several BBC news programmes and national newspapers the following. So far zero response: So there will be no Brexit dividend, and we face tax increases to fund the NHS. Meanwhile, a fount of public money, currently … Continue reading
Grenfell parallels
Coverage of the avoidable Grenfell fire continues unabated. Ben Okri’s critique of system failures (Today, 14 June) that led to the disaster is equally relevant to the dysfunctional traffic control system, which continues to set the stage for avoidable conflict … Continue reading
