Burden of Proof

[Martin Cassini]

Lately I've been concentrating on winning support for a Trial to compare junction safety and efficiency with and without traffic controls. As Kenneth Todd has said, it shouldn't be up to us to prove controls are unnecessary, but for the authorities to prove otherwise, something they have never done. In fact there is no law that requires junction priority or control. Wouldn't it be refreshing if we could just abolish priority and lights today - OK tomorrow, with an accompanying publicity campaign - to see how civilised and efficient egalitarian space-sharing can be? For decades we have been plagued by priority-based regulation which arguably causes congestion, blights streetscapes, divides communities, makes roads hostile, and contributes to thousands of deaths and injuries every year. With no priority, which allows filter in turn, if and when at certain times of day, certain junctions prove unworkable, we can re-introduce some part-time controls. But let's give FiT an extended whirl!