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All Blog Posts Tagged 'pedestrian-countdown' (2)

Sheep in the City

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(Also posted at Equality Streets). Traffic controls are removing the ability of drivers and pedestrians to think for themselves. A new generation of robotic, lobotomised road-users is increasingly incapable of acting according to context, relying instead on traffic controls to guide their behaviour. The new breed of pedestrian can’t cross the road…

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Added by Martin Cassini on April 20, 2011 at 11:30 — No Comments

Countdown

No-one in power seems to see the irony of ever more complex traffic control technology devised to solve road safety problems that originate in the flawed rules of the road. "An exercise in self-defeat," is how Kenneth Todd characterises traffic control. Today saw the launch of a trial in pedestrian countdown, "so pedestrians can see how long they have left to cross the road," says David Brown of TfL. Brown is the guy who…

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Added by Martin Cassini on June 21, 2010 at 20:30 — No Comments

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