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KO’d by a traffic light
In a violent end to last night’s anti-racist demo in Whitehall, a police officer was knocked off her horse and sustained a head injury from … a frigging traffic light! And those WMD – weapons of mass distraction, danger and … Continue reading
Peaceful coexistence
There are calls to allocate more road space to cycling and walking. That’s fine, as long as it goes hand in hand with deregulation. Otherwise, the cycle of coercive control will continue to maximise emissions, cause needless delay and road … Continue reading
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Tagged allocating road space, cycling, Equality Streets, road rage, traffic-lights, walking
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Another nail in coffin
Brake dust is as bad as diesel for producing tiny particles that penetrate heart, lungs and bloodstream. It may be even worse because it produces them in greater quantities. The stop-start drive cycle caused by traffic lights and priority junctions … Continue reading
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Tagged air quality, brake dust, Equality Streets, traffic control, traffic-lights
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Traffic lights still “working”
One of the photographs in Sophie Raworth’s illustrated narrative about a deserted London shows traffic lights still operating. An opportunity to switch off the lights and save power is being squandered. Of course no heads will roll for this abundant … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Sophie Raworth, traffic-lights, waste
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Air quality post-Corona
The lockdown means less traffic and less polluted air. But 45,000 sets of traffic lights still operate, producing 57,000 tons of CO2 every year, just from the electricity that powers them. Rarely reported is that lights produce congestion by blocking … Continue reading
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More policy inanity
The congestion charge exemption for sub-75 g/km vehicles ends in Oct 2021, and from 2025, zero emissions cars will lose their exemption too. Sadiq Khan’s rationale? Traffic pollution damages health and development. We know that. But zero emissions cars emit … Continue reading
DfT and ministerial negligence
A government paper announces funding for local authorities to ‘tackle air pollution’. One of its grotesquely overdue measures is to ‘adjust traffic signals to cut congestion’. So the paper is an open admission that traffic lights contribute to 40,000 premature deaths a … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, Jesse Norman, the DfT, Thérèse Coffey, traffic-lights
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Another avoidable road death
Report here. To blame for this road death, of course, is the malign system of priority. Once again, of course, the perpetrators of the system will get away with what amounts to manslaughter. The onus for road safety should be on … Continue reading
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Tagged Equality Streets, road death, road safety, Sakine Cihan, traffic-lights
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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
