The power of celebrity

[Martin Cassini]

The only surprise is that it's taken people so long to cotton on to the bleedin obvious. It's ten years since I've been pitching these ideas to the media, politicians and traffic managers. In the same way that policymakers have been failing in their duty of care to our time, welfare and the planet, have commissioning editors been failing in their duty to air radical ideas? Well, the ideas are nearly mainstream now, so no doubt there will be a raft of programmes on the subject soon, presented as brand new. If I was Joanna Lumley, would I have had a series on air and already won the good fight against artificial priority and traffic lights ?