Tag Archives: traffic-lights

Will they or won’t they?

Posted on 27th March 2018 by Martin Cassini

Coverage of my attempt to get Barnstaple to go traffic light-free, starting with a double T-junction similar to the one in Portishead. My response to Councillor Greenslade to follow.

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Dysfunctional system promotes delinquency

Posted on 13th January 2018 by Martin Cassini

I was halfway across a High Street junction on foot, and got hooted at by a driver turning right. The Highway Code says drivers should give way to pedestrians at junctions. But the driver had a green light, so he … Continue reading →

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We are victims of obsessive officialdom

Posted on 3rd November 2017 by Martin Cassini

Driving through Barnstaple yesterday (on electric), I think I surprised the driver behind me. At a pedestrian crossing where the lights had just changed against the people on foot, I waited at green for them to cross. They waved in … Continue reading →

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Sayle agreed

Posted on 27th April 2016 by Martin Cassini

Alexei Sayle in this month’s Prospect Magazine: “If I ruled the world … I would remove 80% of the traffic lights … at a junction in France or Spain, there will be four lights, one at each corner … at … Continue reading →

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Seeing red

Posted on 24th January 2016 by Martin Cassini

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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Ratso Cassini

Posted on 7th January 2016 by Martin 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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Traffic lights again

Posted on 15th October 2015 by Martin Cassini

This Mail piece quotes me at length about traffic lights-out in Beverley. Keith’s claim that ditching lights would allow main roads to take over is true of the current priority system, but not of roads designed for equality and a social … Continue reading →

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Thundering

Posted on 9th October 2015 by Martin Cassini

Thunderer piece in today’s Times.

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Breaking point

Posted on 19th June 2015 by Martin Cassini

This piece in the Evening Standard, about an act of violence by a London bus driver, shows how traffic lights can wind us up to breaking point. Imagine driving a bus to a schedule and being held up, more often … Continue reading →

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Parallels (roads and books)

Posted on 24th February 2015 by Martin Cassini

Last night I made this note: “Day in day out, year in year out, the state encourages endless deeds of anti-social behaviour”. Today I read an article by Sunili Govinnage who decided, over a period of a year, to read books … Continue reading →

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