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Falling on deaf ears
Annual casualties on our roads are equivalent to more than one Grenfell a day. Yet while Grenfell gets blanket media coverage, 30,000 equally avoidable road casualties – given that my umpteenth pitch to the Press has just been ignored – … Continue reading
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20mph?
Part of the case for 20mph is that if you’re on foot and hit, you’re less likely to be killed. So it’s OK if you survive with a broken body, is it? Is it beyond the wit of government to … Continue reading
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Dysfunctional rules of the road
On Desert Island Discs (24.3.24), we heard that Professor Alice Roberts was hit by car in her home town of Bristol. She wondered if her “accident” had any bearing on the decision to pedestrianise the street. To me it’s a … Continue reading
Apathy at BH?
I’ve whinged before about the failure of the BBC to respond to my attempts to air the ideas expounded here. I just came across an email I sent Radio 4’s Today Programme on 4.2.22. Like countless others, it didn’t even … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, Equality Streets, Martin Cassini, pedestrian safety, road safety, Today Programme
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Safety last
Safety features in cars are an admission that collisions are inevitable and conflict is the norm. But if roads were designed for coexistence instead of competition, and we had a worthwhile driving test, conflict would disappear and we’d go without … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, road safety, safety first, safety last, traffic system
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Demands for a public inquiry
Michael Rosen is demanding a public enquiry into the government’s handling of Covid-19. “We desperately need an inquiry into how and why this lethal idea [alleged experimenting with herd immunity without vaccination] was taken seriously. We owe it to the dead … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Grant Shapps, Martin Cassini, Michael Rosen, road safety, traffic policy
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Manslaughter charges at last?
In an earlier post I wrote that pigs would fly before Highways England faced manslaughter charges for opening hard shoulders to motorway traffic without proper precautions. It’s promising that South Yorkshire coroner, Nicola Mundy, is referring the case of Nargis … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, hard shoulder, Highways England, Nargis Begum, Nicola Mundy, road safety
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Hit by a bus
The phrase, “You could be killed crossing the road” is a thoughtlessly-repeated phrase, e.g. the other day on The Today Programme by Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty (10.1. 2021, I think it was). Making some parallel with the risk of … Continue reading
Moronic traffic regulation
Traffic regulation is devised by morons for fellow morons as well as bright people. Speed limits and traffic lights require total obedience. They brook no argument if you exercise discretion (e.g. creep across a deserted junction or accelerate briefly to … Continue reading
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Tagged road safety, speed cameras, speed limits, traffic regulation
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