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Cuts, air quality, and how Sadiq Khan has it wrong
While the public spending axe falls left, right and centre – this week it was MoD cuts – a thick seam of beneficial cuts lies neglected. I’m talking about traffic control: a field of vast public expenditure which is vexatious, … Continue reading
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Tagged air quality, Equality Streets, Martin Cassini, Prashant Kumar, Sadiq Khan, WMD
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In conversation …
… about transforming life on the roads with novelist, Karen Millie James, at lunchtime today on her radio show: http://www.sg1radio.co.uk/karenliveatone
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Tagged Equality Streets, Karen Millie James, Martin Cassini, SG1 Radio
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Seeing red
Today’s Mail on Sunday piece about an IEA Paper I co-authored with Richard Wellings twisted our work to fit some anti-Green agenda. The Paper and my accompanying polemic (Companion piece) can be found here at the Press tab.
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Tagged IEA Report, Martin Cassini, Richard Wellings, seeing red, traffic-lights
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Ratso Cassini
29.12.15 A driver honked at me from behind as I walked diagonally across Tesco car park in Barnstaple. “Where are your manners?” I asked. “Why weren’t you looking where you were going?” he yelled. I struck him dumb with a … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Hamilton-Baillie, Martin Cassini, Midnight Cowboy, Poynton, Ratso Rizzo, traffic-lights
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Thundering
Thunderer piece in today’s Times.
More painful reminders
The claims and counterclaims about austerity versus tax and spend are further painful reminders that politicians and media are missing a massive opportunity, as I tried to explain again in this piece for the NDJ.
Clarkson’s not wrong
Clarkson says speed limits are “annoying”. Even worse, they are counterproductive. Traffic regulation treats us like simpletons, or automatons. We should learn to drive by context, not by numbers. Brake! would claim that freedom to choose our own speed would be … Continue reading
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Missing the point again
To cut the deficit, the Govt is thinking of selling its stake in Eurostar, which could raise £20bn. Among other national assets it might flog is the Royal Mint. Meanwhile, traffic regulation, which acts to our detriment and costs tens … Continue reading
The point about Poynton
Last week I finished a draft edit of a film about Poynton, a community thriving again after liberation from decades of oppressive traffic engineering. More material needs to be shot, so it’s still a couple of months away from publication, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Hamilton-Baillie, Howard Murray, Martin Cassini, Poynton, Poynton Regenerated
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