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If only it were so simple, or...

...how ideology is the enemy of an inherently complex world

John Dales
13 May 2016
Any similarity between We’re Jammin’ and 
Seeing Red is almost certainly intentional
Any similarity between We’re Jammin’ and Seeing Red is almost certainly intentional
We hardly need signals, because “there is a promising solution in the form of the 
concept of ‘shared space’”
We hardly need signals, because “there is a promising solution in the form of the concept of ‘shared space’”

 

On the last day of last month, a report entitled We’re Jammin’ was published by a group headed by that reggae icon, The Right Honourable Grant Shapps MP (or TRHGSMP, to give him his full acronym). I don’t really know what a Rt Hon is, but I know Grant’s one because his website is quite brazen about the fact; and I had to visit the website in order to find the report. 

I did so to try and discover whether the report really does, as its press release claims,...

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John Dales

John Dales

John Dales MSC BSC MCIHT CMILT Director, Urban Mov

John Dales is a streets design adviser to local authorities around the UK, a member of several design review panels, and one of the London mayor’s design advocates. He is a past chair of the Transport Planning Society, a former trustee of Living Streets, and a committee member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety. He is director of transport planning and street design consultancy Urban Movement. 

 

j.dales@urbanmovement.co.uk
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