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In which I have to agree with the ABD
…that remedial lectures are not an appropriate alternative to prosecution for people who use mobile phones while driving. Stopped clocks, and all that. Rather less frequently than twice a day in the...
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Blijf uit de dode hoek
“Stay out of the blind spot” Where have I heard that before? Fixed that for you.But these posters were repeated on a dozen lamp posts here: It is, surely, irrelevant? Unlike London’s “superhighways”,...
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Prevention and cure
While organising notes, I stumbled upon this quote I bookmarked years ago, from the great Harvard cancer biologist Judah Folkman: A pediatric surgeon in Boston just finished a difficult operation. To...
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After Westminster Hall, where next?
I have been neglecting this blog, both pulled away by other projects and watching with awe the unfolding of The Times‘ Cities Fit For Cycling campaign. I will assume that all of the readers of this...
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Unskilled and unaware of it (re-post)
It was pointed out to me that I haven’t posted anything for weeks. It will be a few more before the project that has been taking up my time is out of the way. Here, then, is something I wrote way back...
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The telling death of a railwayman
Here, to keep you occupied while I work on something else, is a very short extract from a first draft of something else. It’ll need a bit of work. The context is that it comes amongst a long discussion...
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Railway safety doesn’t need scare quotes: it works
Do you get annoyed, when it rains or there are autumn leaves on the ground, that your railway station becomes polluted by so many posters and announcements advising you to watch your step, and warning...
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Be nice to the ASA
I am sure that if you have not already, you will soon be reading an account of the Advertising Standards Authority’s embarrassing adjudication on complaints made about Scotland’s “Nice Way Code” series...
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New road safety campaign calls for greater visibility on the roads
As the nights draw in and the clocks go back, it’s time once again for the perennial road safety campaigns to call for cyclists and pedestrians to take their share of responsibility by making sure that...
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Everyone on twitter is* dunking on embarrassingly bad road safety awareness campaign tweets. But we should abolish all social media-based road safety awareness campaigns — including the ones which...
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