A four letter word

[Martin Cassini]

There’s a four-letter word to describe FiT philosophy. K-I-N-D. Filter in turn allows people to be kind to each other. Main road priority, which forms the foundation of the current system, encourages the opposite. If you want to be kind and give way to a fellow road-user who was there first, you will be seen by the vehicles behind you as in breach of the rules, which say you should only slow down or stop for a red light or an obstruction. Slow down for someone trying to cross from a side road, or for a pedestrian? Deeply subversive. But that’s my aim. To subvert the current order. The current approach of coercion and control, which inexplicably the vast majority accept without question, promotes the disorder. All I’m seeking to do is restore a level playing-field where all road-users can interact and co-exist in peace.

[Martin Cassini]

Yes, you are an "aware" road-user, and like me you are fighting the (lack of) culture. The required perception shift to right the ingrained wrongs is so simple ... I'm pursuing "live" trials and a TV series with a view to sensitising the population at large.

[Ian Perry]

This is the way things are in Germany already! I fist came across this in Hamburg when my friend stopped on the main road to let someone out in front of us! In fact they let cyclists pull out in front of them in Freiburg! I was pretty shocked!

I have also been the victim of road rage for allowing a pregnant lady with a pram to cross in front of me... That was of course in London.

Last weekend, a police vehicle almost ran me over before he parked illegally... when turning left into a side street that I was already halfway across. Even in the UK it is my right of way, it's just not observed by many and pedestrians think I am.......... when I stop to let then cross ahead of me.

[Martin Cassini]

You can imagine the police questioning you if you slowed down on a main road to let side road traffic enter or cross. They would accuse you of being a danger to other road-users. Never mind that you are trying to do the decent thing. The rules, supported by the law of the land, promote the indecent thing.