The nub of it

The current traffic system, founded on the anti-social idea of priority, embodies a culture of violence and intimidation. It encourages intolerance and inappropriate speeds, denying infinite filtering opportunities and expressions of fellow feeling. Priority produces a “need” for expensive, vexatious regulation which, by treating symptoms instead of causes, amounts to an exercise in self-defeat. The solution is a simple, sociable one: equality, not priority, as a basis for road-user relationships. “After you,” instead of “Get out of my way!”