19 August

Another example of social change. Remember the huge to-do about reducing urban speed limits to 50? Now barely rates a mention. If you drive through these areas now at 50, you can directly feel that 60 was much too fast, too dangerous for pedestrians etc. Streets as shared spaces, as the controversial government initiative is called, but car-drivers aren’t sharing people. Cars encourage the most extreme aggression and selfishness. We built them to help us get around, then they took over and now cities revolve around them. It’ll be a slow process of taking cities back for people.