Do "fixed" speed cameras, like this Gatso one, make you feel safer on the roads?
After the LEP revelaed that Lancashire's fixed speed cameras could be replaced with average speed cameras (that divide how quickly you've gone over a certain distance to work out an average speed) I've decided to look at safety on Lancashire's roads.
I'll be posting again in the next few days with details on the good things that speed cameras do. I'll also be posting an AV slideshow of an interview I did with Linda Sanderson from the Lancashire Partnership for Road Saftey.
In the meantime, I'd like your thoughts. Do you think speed cameras make roads safer? Vote on my poll now. It's like democracy in action!
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
The North West's own Olympic Villages
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Found this info in the LEP about Pacific Islands using the North West as their base for the 2012 olympics and mapped them out. Exciting times for the North West's sports and leisure facilities.
Just odd that Penwortham leisure centre isn't part of the plan!
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
If I had...
5 minutes with Barack Obama....
I hit the streets of Preston to find out what would be the first thing people would ask Barack Obama to do, if they had 5 minutes in a room with him.
The most encouraging thing I found was that young people were willing to talk and very enthused about the President-Elect. I just hope that Obama-rama can encourage young people in this country, disillusioned with the state of Government, to take some interest in what goes on in the corridors of power.
Picture credits:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/swanksalot/1984561243/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/2037044895/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/libdems/2241332259/
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
An unseemly struggle
It was another crushing inevitability I suppose, but the unseemly struggle by the UK's leading politicians to align themselves with Mr Obama has already kicked off.
I just hope that Obama's positivity and belief can be felt over here as much as I'm sure it will in the US
I just hope that Obama's positivity and belief can be felt over here as much as I'm sure it will in the US
The finest inevitability
As Tony Blair once said "this is not a day for sound bites.... but I feel the hand of history on my shoulder." Ba-dum-tish!
There's no point me telling you what the result was as you must already be aware, if you're not how on earth did you get here?!
It had seemed, especially since the Economic Crisis blew up that Obama was almost a shoe-in for the Presidency. That doesn't make it any less special. The TV pictures of huge queues outside the schools and halls that serve as polling stations have been inspiring. Particularly as the people who have come out to vote for Obama have been the hardest to get to the polls, as they are in this country. Young people and what we tend to term "ethnic minorities", although to call "the most poweful man in the free world" part of an ethnic minority sits a little uneasily, as does the term generally.
When was the last time young British people were enthused about politics in this way? There hasn't, admittedly, been a politician with the charm, appeal, wit and skills of rhetoric as Mr Obama. Mr Blair must come the closest, but as his term in Number 10 drew to a close he became a parody of himself.
I've been finding Felicity Spector's blog for Channel 4 very good.
It will take a lot of time for the dust to settle after last night, but the Washington Post has, helpfully, provided Obama with a great big list of problems!
One suspects his aides and strategical team might already have thought about this!
As an after thought... I wonder how much sleep Obama and McCain got last night? Not what I'd call a good eight hours I guess.
There's no point me telling you what the result was as you must already be aware, if you're not how on earth did you get here?!
It had seemed, especially since the Economic Crisis blew up that Obama was almost a shoe-in for the Presidency. That doesn't make it any less special. The TV pictures of huge queues outside the schools and halls that serve as polling stations have been inspiring. Particularly as the people who have come out to vote for Obama have been the hardest to get to the polls, as they are in this country. Young people and what we tend to term "ethnic minorities", although to call "the most poweful man in the free world" part of an ethnic minority sits a little uneasily, as does the term generally.
When was the last time young British people were enthused about politics in this way? There hasn't, admittedly, been a politician with the charm, appeal, wit and skills of rhetoric as Mr Obama. Mr Blair must come the closest, but as his term in Number 10 drew to a close he became a parody of himself.
I've been finding Felicity Spector's blog for Channel 4 very good.
It will take a lot of time for the dust to settle after last night, but the Washington Post has, helpfully, provided Obama with a great big list of problems!
One suspects his aides and strategical team might already have thought about this!
As an after thought... I wonder how much sleep Obama and McCain got last night? Not what I'd call a good eight hours I guess.
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