ASBOs for policymakers and traffic engineers?

[Martin Cassini]

Cycling on Westminster Bridge Road yesterday, I was forced into the kerb by a bus driver stopping at red (why do drivers always feel the urge to overtake cyclists, even when it brings them no benefit?). On Euston Road in the car, I saw drivers giving the finger and sweating rage as they jockeyed for position in a yellow box junction at signals which take a week to change. The system of priority that gives rise to the counterproductive system of control actively encourages anti-social behaviour (as it rations road space, denies filtering opportunities, damages air quality, etc). Every time you go out, you see rank hostility stemming solely from the poisoned chalice of inequality inflicted on us by the unelected, unaccountable TCD (traffic control dictatorship). No doubt many TCD chiefs will retire with titles and fat pensions, when they should be put out on the street with well-deserved ASBOs.