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Box ticking
Until recently, domestic news was all about the inevitability of painful cuts. As often stated here, traffic system reform offers vast scope for kind cuts. These days, domestic news is all about the need for growth. Leaving aside the Transition movement, … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, kind cuts, painful lcuts, painless cuts, Transition movement
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Fear of the unknown
“Most of us have a hard-wired fear of all things unusual,” says gym instructor-turned-author Venice A Fulton in a piece in today’s Observer about his diet book, Six Weeks to OMG. This is the only way I can understand the … Continue reading
Corporate manslaughter
My Radio 4 piece is over and done, but I should have denounced the purveyors of traffic control in stronger terms. By making roads dangerous in the first place (with the unequal priority system), and for presiding over tens of … Continue reading
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Tagged air quality London, corporate manslaughter, Equality Streets, No Idle Matter
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Thought for the Day
Jonathan Sacks is always worth listening to. Today it was about justice, achieved through collective responsibility and collective action. The parallel with Equality Streets is clear. On the road, individual and collective responsibility are illegal. We have to submit to … Continue reading
Police and red lights
In Four Thought on Radio 4, I described being stopped by police for cycling through red lights and then being released without charge. The point I meant to make is that on our over-regulated roads, the police are the last refuge of … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, iintelligent discretion, Police, red lights, roads
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Scope for growth
In Four Thought on Radio 4 tonight, among the things I forgot to mention is the scope in traffic system reform not just for kind cuts, but for growth. Redesigning the road network to express a social rather than a … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, growth, redesigning road network, redesigning streets
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Radio 4 piece
My talk in Radio 4’s Four Thought series goes out this week. I spoke ad lib, and now, after the event, about all I can remember is what I forgot to say or could have said better!
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Tagged Equality Streets, Four Thought, Martin Cassini, Radio 4
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The brain dead give us brain damage
You can be the safest, most aware driver, but the bass turds are out to get you and get you they will. Paid savants devise cryptic regulation that builds into the vast public disservice known as traffic management. The other day I drove along … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Exhibition Road, shared space, traffic management
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The TCD (traffic control dictatorship) and Assad
Parallels in an article by Roger Cohen (NYT) between Assad and the TCD (traffic control dictatorship). “Nothing in the Arab uprisings suggests that any outcome short of the departure of the hated symbol of long repression will satisfy the people … Continue reading
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Tagged Assad, Equality Streets, priority, Roger Cohen, TCD, traffic control dictatorship, tyranny
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Houdini budget
Once again traffic (mis)management has escaped public spending cuts and the notice of Whitehall! Quite incredible when you see things through the lens of Equality Streets.
