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Stating the obvious
You’ll be pleased to hear the Department for Transport has published a new Research report, Operation of Traffic Signals during Low Demand (4 Oct 2012). I’ll quote and comment as we go along. “Traffic signal design is a science that … Continue reading
Deference
The Sixties brought a refreshing attack on class deference. We need a similar shift on the roads. People on foot – stop deferring to people on wheels! Motorists, while traffic lights dictate your every move, I appreciate this is a … Continue reading
Priority = inequality
In the past I’ve written that if the law is an ass, nowhere is it more asinine than in the traffic arena. But is it the law, or traffic managers’ interpretation of the law? There is no legal requirement, i.e. … Continue reading
Pedestrians unite!
Useful corrective piece by Zoe Williams about pedestrians, and the failure of the authorities to highlight or address the danger they face. She is right to be angry, but as with most commentators. she misses the root cause of our road safety … Continue reading
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Equality: well-being and progress
On The Forum, Bangladeshi novelist, Tahmima Anam, said something along the lines of, “Whenever we’ve focused on equality, we’ve made huge social progress”. Among the examples she cited were the abolition of slavery and votes for women. Given the chance to prove … Continue reading
A sign of failure
As I’ve written elsewhere, instructional traffic signs are a sign of failure to design roads in a way that expresses equality and stimulates empathy. If we lived by equality instead of priority, we wouldn’t need signs like the one shown … Continue reading
Extending speed limits
There are plans to reduce speed limits in towns and on rural roads. Like traffic lights, speed limits would be redundant if the rules of the road were based on equality instead of priority, if roads were designed to express a social … Continue reading
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Social solutions
I’ve said this before, but if road-user relationships were based on social values – equality based on time of arrival – instead of traffic regulation – priority based on status of road or direction of travel – most of our … Continue reading
Harry Potter on common law
In The Strange Case of the Law (BBC2), criminal defence barrister, Harry Potter (who keeps his wig in a Quality Street tin), says that English common law was “this country’s greatest gift to the world”. Our traffic control system looked that … Continue reading
Pedestrian safety v traffic flow?
A letter in today’s Telegraph says pedestrian safety is more important than traffic flow, and longer green time is the only way to improve pedestrian safety. No. Equality is a panacea: with equal rights and responsibilities, road-users coexist as equals. In the intrinsically safe framework created … Continue reading
