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phunksta

Link to an Article about Street Clutter

Started by phunksta Jun 23.

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Is sharing space a matter of culture?

Started by phunksta Jun 19.

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Damn Missed it

Started by phunksta May 22.

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Why amber?

Red and green mean stop and spurt

Amber equals bright alert

(OK, it's not Shakespeare)

As the eagle-eyed among you will have noticed, amber is the colour of the Roads FiT for People logo. It was drawn by a talented and distinctive designer by the name of Darrell Ireland.

Created by Martin Cassini Feb 9, 2009 at 10:32am. Last updated by Martin Cassini May 8.

Anti-gravity?

For a cyclist obeying traffic lights but defying the laws of gravity, see this 5-min <a href="videohttp://theridiculant.metro.co.uk/2009/04/cycling-through-edinburgh-the-extreme-version.html">video</a> (the final sequence is particularly jaw-dropping). Remember to back ta… Continue

Created by Martin Cassini Apr 22, 2009 at 8:05am. Last updated by Martin Cassini Apr 22.

107 MPG and 61 g/km

The new Toyota Prius has figures of 107mpg and 61g/km - something of a step-change. Lowest current CO2 figures include the Smart ForTwo diesel (88g/km), Ford Fiesta Ecomotive (98), and VW Polo Bluemotion (99).

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Created by Martin Cassini Apr 6, 2009 at 9:19pm. Last updated by Martin Cassini Apr 12.

Worth a browse

http://www.stuff2send.com
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Created by Martin Cassini Feb 24, 2009 at 6:09pm. Last updated by Martin Cassini Feb 24.

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In Errornomics, Pulitzer winner Joseph Hallinan says that Hudson Bay pilot, Chesley Sullenberger, credits his team for helping bring the plane in. Instead of one chief, there was a group of equals. “As a result, it’s proven you make far fewer erro...
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While Boris and Westminster congratulate themselves on obvious pedestrian improvements to Oxford Circus (costing £5m!) – marking diagonal as well as right-angle crossings – Oxford Street and the rest of London continue to fume at innumerable unnec...
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The use of nitrogen fertilisers to grow diesel from rape seed or ethanol from wheat produces more greenhouse gases than can be saved by using these sources of “clean energy”. Nobel prize winner Paul Crutzen said this in 2007 (reported by Dr Hans H...
October 26
Martin Cassini commented on Andrew Staton's blog post 'Bristol campaign'
The BEP (Bristol Evening Post) picked up the campaign because of the successful Portishead trial. They've asked me to do a 300-word piece next week. If I had more space I might include your story. I think the tide is turning. The old road is rapid...
October 23
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During the summer, I wrote to the Vale of Glamorgan with regard to some road infrastructure changes in the South Wales towns of Penarth and Cowbridge. The questions and answers follow: What are the traffic flows on Windsor road and why is the roa...
October 23
 

Blog Posts

Martin Cassini

Safe cycling

In the current debate about cycling deaths, are most people missing the point? My solution: abolish directional priority to create a level playing-field where everyone has to approach junctions carefully, and make cycling proficiency a mandatory part of the driving test!

Posted by Martin Cassini on November 7, 2009 at 10:11am

Martin Cassini

Prohibition on the roads equally counterproductive?

In 1981 (writes Ben Goldacre, Guardian, 7.11.09), studies of rates of change in cannabis use based on national surveys in the 70s found the most rapid increase was in countries with the toughest penalties. Cannabis use in the UK fell after the move from Class B to C. Prohibition of alcohol provides the most famous example of counterproductive control and enforcement. "If you wish to justify a policy that increases the harms associated with each individual act of drug use by creating violent crim… Continue

Posted by Martin Cassini on November 7, 2009 at 10:06am

Martin Cassini

Bristol lights out

More background on the Bristol lights-out campaign and my involvement here. [Back tab to return to site.] They edited out the crux of what I had to say, viz. that lights are only a symptom of the underlying cause of most of our problems on the road: priority. Replace the skewed system of priority with equality, and most of our problems will vanish in a puff of e… Continue

Posted by Martin Cassini on November 7, 2009 at 10:00am

Martin Cassini

Doctrinal disaster

In Errornomics, Pulitzer winner Joseph Hallinan says that Hudson Bay pilot, Chesley Sullenberger, credits his team for helping bring the plane in. Instead of one chief, there was a group of equals. “As a result, it’s proven you make far fewer errors.” Similarly, if nurses stop seeing surgeons as superior beings and speak up if they see something wrong, it reduces errors. There is a clear parallel with life and death on the road. In removing responsibility and treating us as subservient “u… Continue

Posted by Martin Cassini on November 4, 2009 at 11:09am

Martin Cassini

Oxford Circus

While Boris and Westminster congratulate themselves on obvious pedestrian improvements to Oxford Circus (costing £5m) – marking diagonal as well as right-angle crossings – Oxford Street and the rest of London continue to fume at innumerable unnecessary lights. The other day I was in a bus on an Oxford St crammed as always with bumper-to-bumper diesel buses. At one junction we had to wait for three complete signal cycles before we got out of the junction. Why? Because the "experts" who run and ru… Continue

Posted by Martin Cassini on November 2, 2009 at 7:00pm

 
 

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