A few days ago a pedicab (or rickshaw), decked out in luminous pink, collided with a red London bus in the early hours of the morning. Three people were hurt, two seriously. I won’t delve into the rights and wrongs of what happened; you can see a partial video on social media and there are reports the pedicab was stolen. This is not about one particular accident but about the perils on the streets of London and other cities, occasioned by wildly incompatible vehicles competing for space, by ever more reckless riders and drivers, but above all by the disgraceful and potentially lethal lack of interest shown by the authorities – any authorities.

As someone who drives less and less in central London, but dimly recalls a time of exemplary lane discipline, punctilious halting for red lights an

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