As I was endeavoring to cross Worcester’s Southern By-pass this morning in the company of a woman with two young children we were all nearly mown down by a motorist – there being no crossing facility – who seemed to feel the need to accelerate on seeing a group of pedestrians.
For an instant, I was overtaken by a vision of what can only be described as “The Sustainable Transport Summer”, a sort of earthly paradise in which those driving dangerously or too fast, most transport planners, their political masters and other instruments of motorised state oppression are banned forever from taking up the wheel.
The vision passed just as the aforementioned motorist managed to slow down so my fellow pedestrians and I could cross the road. A small step for we women, and perhaps the prospect of a rather larger one for humankind.
Grateful for both vision and slowing motorist, I also remembered to give thanks today for the removal of Councillor Derek Prodger as Cabinet member for transport at Worcestershire County Council.
Indeed there seem to be many people who share the feelings of a respondent to the Worcester News story that Councillor Prodger had been “booted out of the Cabinet”…..”There will be more street parties after this news than because of the Royal Wedding” !
