Or not, as the case may be. One of my posts at Forbes has been tweeted by that nice Mr. Fry to his 3. something million followers. This one. It’ll be interesting to see the end result….especially given that I’m paid on traffic over there.

             Yesterday morning a consultation letter turned up, asking for my views on a set of traffic lights.             I was interested to see it came from an initiative of the Mayor of London to eliminate traffic light sets that are little used or badly sited, to try to help the traf...

            For all too many years I have been trying to persuade people to build a new railway station for Wokingham, and to sort out the traffic chaos at the station roundabout and level crossing.  The Council has been supportive. Many constituents have agreed. First Railtrack, then Network Rail damned my proposals with faint

While spectators are being urged to abandon their cars and embrace public transport, 4,000 brand new BMWs have been ordered to escort dignitaries and officials to events. The fleet of the German cars will include more than 3,000 BMW 3 and 5 Series saloons, which will be permitted to beat the traffic by using specially

The centre of London is buzzing. The streets are crowded day and night. There are traffic jams at 11pm. The pavements are congested after dinner or the theatre. The shops are busy. There is a wide range of very expensive boutiques in a number of different high street locations. The central London economy has detached

Picked this up from the public broadcast, issued last night as an ONI Special Advisory. REPORTS FROM MARITIME FORCES AND COMMERCIAL MARITIME INTERESTS INDICATE CONCERN WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED DISRUPTION TO SHIPPING IN CONJUNCTION WITH FUTURE IRANIAN NAVAL EXERCISES. DURING PREVIOUS EXERCISES IRANIAN MARITIME FORCES CONDUCTED BOARDINGS AND INSPECTIONS OF MERCHANT SHIPS, INCLUDING THOSE FLA...

Arizona's SB1070, the law that allows police to check the immigration status of people they have reasonable cause to suspect of being illegal aliens during unrelated business like traffic stops is going before the Supreme Court. The law,which also requires immigrants to carry their papers at all times and bans people without proper documents from soliciting for work in public places was chall...

The two countries are to harmonise a wide range of procedures and regulations on the movement of goods and people across the border

Government Motor's flagship product, the vastly underselling Volt has some additional problems to contend with. Its lithium-ion battery system has shown a disturbing tendency to catch on fire in test crashes, even crashes at relatively slow velocity. Even worse,evidence has been discovered indicating that both Government Motors and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration delayed di...

Pay-as-you-drive electric car rentals are expected to help cut pollution and reduce traffic in Paris, as the new fleet of fully electric Autiolib’ vehicles hits the French capital. More »