Importuned at every turn

[Martin Cassini]

I’m just back from a necessary drive across central London and back, made twice as long because of innumerable traffic lights that block progress, whether there is conflicting traffic or not. Every urban trip you make, on foot or on wheels, is plagued by impositions on your time and insults to your intelligence. As if we can’t decide for ourselves when it’s safe to go! Indeed, being there at the time and the place, we can decide better than any automated system possibly could. Many junctions even have red pedestrian phases whether peds are in evidence or not. And we, the taxpayers, have to foot the bill for this eye-watering counter-productivity. They herd us like sheep, removing all our power for responsible decision-making. It’s time we stood up en masse and screamed WE’RE NOT TAKING IT ANYMORE!