"Ben Tansley" <
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> "Danny Colyer" <
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>> Apparently there was a program on R4 at 20:30 called "Why Did We Do That", about the motor car
>> taking away peoples' freedom to use the streets during the 20th century.
>>
>> I plan to catch it later on Listen Again:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml
>
> Lots of nice touches, from Meyer Hillman on the predictability of accents to the Pedestrians'
> Association on their wars with the AA & RAC in the '30s. The McGuffin was the way we moved from
> looking out for children to demanding that children always have 360-degree awareness of any
> potential threat.
I caught this too. Very good. I liked the bit about "Play Streets" in Manchester in the 1930s. An
excellent idea, showed great promise in cutting road injuries and deaths but was not taken up.
Does this pre-date the Dutch "Home Zones" that we are now talking about importing?
I also liked the rather pompous pronouncements of politicians years ago arguing against setting
speed limits because drivers were gentlement and should be trusted to make their own judgements. Who
did that remind me of?
Toby
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