Fairness hardwired

[Martin Cassini]

Today's behavioural psychologists say a sense of fairness is hardwired into us. Yet we have to suffer an unfair traffic control system, one that confers unequal rights on different road-users, that forces us to act against our better nature and better judgement. In 2008, when I pitched lights-off trials to Boris/the GLA, he said the ideas were too radical, and it would be hard to win public buy-in for FiT reforms. I disagreed then, and I disagree now. We are predisposed towards the central idea, which is based on fairness.