U-turn?

[Martin Cassini]

I've been saying that traffic lights are an unnecessary evil. Second thoughts. They are worse than unnecessary. They cause congestion by denying infinite filtering opportunities. They heighten danger by taking our eyes off the road and stimulating inappropriate speed. They heighten stress and mess with our minds by dictating our behaviour against our better judgement. They incubate hostility by preventing empathy and fellow feeling. They cost the earth to install and run, causing damage to the economy and the environment. They assume an importance out of all proportion to their paltry origins - a bad policy decision which has ossified into dogma. That decision - to abandon common law principles of equal rights and responsibilities in favour of directional priority - laid the foundations for state-sponsored control and enforcement on an industrial scale. The system presides over 30,000 deaths and casualties every year. It fails to deal with congestion and fails to address climate change. It isn't working. It needs fixing. FiT Roads can make Roads FiT for People.