Credit where it's not due?

[Martin Cassini]

The Sunday Times were going to do a piece on our JET (Junction Efficiency Trial), but they pulled it because the story was leaked to The Telegraph. The Telegraph piece says nothing about the origins of the trial, which followed intense lobbying by me. Westminster commissioned us (my traffic engineer partner and me) on 8 April. I was asked not to talk to the press, and things have been subject to numerous delays since. Strangely, TfL, who have continually blocked my proposals for a trial (including one in 2004 which had the support of Brent), seem to claim it as their idea. The GLA and Boris too, who turned down our trial proposal last year, loom large in the Telegraph article, which is little more than an official press release on behalf of TfL/GLA. The piece is here. (If you follow the link, you will need to back tab to return.)