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fety improvements in this area belmont road and langham road have been the site of numerous injuries to pedestrians at the hands of drivers langham road is an extremely busy rat run langham has relatively high density rental housing and passes by one entrance to park view secondary school traffic queuing to turn from west green road into langham further fouls the air and delays buses stanmore road is also a rat run two or three very simple traffic filters would solve this keeping the through traffic on the main a b roads and making both langham and stanmore into safe places for kids elimination of a few parking spaces would make space for a right turn lane from west green to belmont preventing traffic delays on west green there haringey council estimates traffic filters cost about 30 000 per junction on average but other sources put that at about 20 000 two small low traffic neighbourhoods could be had or at least tried at well within the 80 000 budget for the safety project what s the haringey council doing with the money putting in traffic bumps on belmont and langham the cars will still come with the suv drivers hardly noticing the bumps and other drivers producing more noise and pollution than ever with the slow down speed up rhythm that speed bumps give us as far as i can tell traffic filtering options were not even considered by the council they were not included in the consultation on the project this will not surprise anybody who has observed the haringey council over time those in the council who make decisions about roads and traffic do not like filters they can say it s for want of money but they find money for speed bumps which are not cheap the same thing seems to be happening with improvements to the amusingly named cycle superhighway 1 a route that roughly parallels the tottenham high road sometimes on the pavement but mostly on back streets this is one of the bits of covid emergency active travel funding that haringey was successful at bidding for i have not seen detailed plans as far as i know they have not been published but it looks as if again they are passing up opportunities to use those funds for filters that would serve the dual purpose of making a far better cycle route and at the same time create some people friendly streets i ll get back to that when i have more information but while we wait to learn that we already know enough yes the council is short of funds but that is not the reason drivers rule our streets and our air is toxic the reason is that the people who make these decisions at the council don t make active travel a priority and don t make clean air a priority they resist solutions which would confine through traffic to main roads while making most roads safe again for children and for other people who breathe and they resist solutions that would reduce parking and loading to make space for cycle tracks we get a lot of fine words from the council about active travel clean air and reduced carbon footprint but actions speak louder and this council s actions speak all too clearly when i say the people who make these decisions at the council i m not being coy in not naming names i see what the council does and write about that who makes the calls is not something i see and i m not inclined to speculate posted in local haringey london uncategorized tagged cycling haringey 1 reply dominic cummings trillion dollar tech fantasy posted on september 18 2020 by frederick guy 1 we all got a laugh a couple of weeks ago upon learning why dominic cummings the dick cheney of boris johnson s government wants the uk government free to provide state aid to companies it s one of the principal reaons for wanting to violate the eu exit agreement johnson had pushed through parliament just last year the reason as robert peston quotes cummings is countries that were late to industrialisation were owned coerced by those early to it the same will happen to countries without trillion dollar tech companies over the next 20 years the most obvious response to cummings is best put by the inimitable marina hyde who asks us to imagine a friend of cummings looking him in the eye and saying mate with the best will in the world what on earth about the last six months makes you think you can build the next apple others have allowed mere doubt about cummings competence rather than denial of it and then given him the benefit of that doubt instead they criticise his trillion dollar tech company scheme on the grounds that the countries usually classed late industrializers from germany and the usa in the late 19th century to korea in the late 20th are often reckoned to have done pretty well for themselves and to have avoided ownership and coercion by britain in this regard though i think cummings assertion is entirely correct even if for reasons i ll get to his idea is bad britain did use its position as the first industrial power to both own and coerce much of the world and it did so successfully for over a century and britain s success in this does offer some parallels with america s and the trillion dollar tech companies of the silicon valley and seattle today but does that mean britain can or should try to follow that model today let me tell you why not from the late 18th century through the early 20th britain strove to keep its industrial head start by protecting the position of its manufacturers in international markets in ways familiar to any student of history for many decades when it was the workshop of the world and controlled most of the cutting edge technologies it forbade both the export of industrial machinery and the emigration of people who knew anything about making it eventually the secrets leaked out anyway and britain began to lose its manufacturing monopolies to rivals like germany and the usa britain responded by building a larger empire so that the sun never set on its captive market within the empire there was a strict division of labor with manufactured products coming from the home country parts of the empire had already developed internationally competitive manufacturing industries and those had to go india s textile and shipbuilding industries for example were destroyed so that they would no longer threaten britain s industrial and military monopoly so yes plenty of control and coercion as cummings says today the international monopolists are american the tech giants these giants the trillion or near trillion dollar companies are not the foremost technological innovators but are companies which have become as rich by carving out monopolies in software and the web digital gardens large or small with walls to keep competitors out google dominates search amazon online retail microsoft office applications and personal computer operating systems google and facebook online advertising google and apple phone apps and so on it is important to distinguish between what these tech giants have done and technological innovation there are many many tech companies in the world but only four google apple amazon and microsoft at or near the trillion dollar mark in market capitalization facebook is also very valuable the fifth most valuable tech company but in this league it s mini me take phone apps as an example google s and apple s phone operating systems are based on sophisticated open source software others have written and given away the phones marvels of electronics and miniaturization are made by others the apps on the phones are written and sold by thousands of individuals and companies around the world google and apple in their positions as gatekeepers take generous cuts from each sale of an app many many tech companies are involved in phones phone software and phone apps but only two are anything close to being trillion dollar companies that s because they ve established strong monopoly positions just as britain did for its world serving workshop about two hundred years ago when he says trillion dollar tech companies that is the sort of business cummings wants to get cummings fascination with trillion dollar tech companies then does fit nicely with the characteristic brexiteer s nostalgia for empire he is seeing accurately today s analogue the question then is should the uk try to join in the game america is playing some would say not on the grounds that in the long run the imperial monopoly strategy left britain weak to succeed in a world dominated by britain its late industrialist rivals devised superior industrial systems britain was out produced by the usa out engineered by germany out managed by many countries sheltered behind its imperial market and the returns from previous overseas investments it clung to a strong pound to prop up the value of a diminishing stream of income from overseas many would say that the us is doing something analogous today its considerable diplomatic powers devoted to protecting silicon valley and a few other sectors at the expense of hollowing out the rest of its industries see dani rodrik on this point but is that really failure nothing lasts forever britain had a very good run as now america has had as well but britain is not going to be able to do it again one thing cummings has right is that if the uk were to attempt this strategy it s probably good that it s left the european union because brussels the european commission and all those nasty bureaucrats are the only force on the planet making a serious effort to tame and regulate the monopoly power of big tech that s not the game cummings wants to play but being out of the eu leaves the uk with the problem of having a relatively small domestic market the classic late industrializer response to britain s power was to use a protected domestic market as a greenhouse in which to develop new firms which can then compete globally when they re big and strong china is doing exactly that for its own web giants the uk domestic market however is nowhere near big enough to do what china is doing an alternative version says that the uk s imagined tech titans would neither be exposed at birth to the fierce storms of global competition nor confined in the uk s too small domestic market because the post brexit uk will somehow become part of a new atlantic or anglo zone economy airstrip one as orwell had it this vision of course gets a reality check every time nancy pelosi has to remind the british government that it won t have any trade deal with the us if it allows its brexit extremism to undermine the good friday agreement but let s say for the sake of argument that the government can solve the problem of creating a hard border around the uk without creating one on the island of ireland and following further triumphs of diplomacy the uk s emerging tech companies find themselves within a very large protected market which includes the united states now one place cummings thinking does make contact with reality is in understanding that the uk and in particular london cambridge and the southeast of england generally does have great strengths in the tech giants sectors software web applications business services it has the skills the financing the start ups and the very close links with the american tech giants themselves it is already part of that industrial eco system surely all it lacks is to itself be the home base of couple of very rich companies perhaps as the west coast becomes uninhabitable due to smoke from forest fires opportunities to form the next generation of tech monopolies will shift back to the mother country many places though offer themselves up to become the new center of tech gravity should it ever shift if there were a new center and it were not in asia it would more likely be someplace else in the united states boston new york or even north carolina would be more likely than london even if the uk were part of a seamless atlantic market that s because uk has never been good at building big businesses from the late nineteenth century onwards the us germany japan the netherlands france sweden and switzerland all have been better at building big companies with sustained internal programs of innovation and investment and with global reach in recent decades korea and china have joined those ranks we have seen this in steel chemicals and electrical equipment in the 1870s 1890s in automobiles and other mass production industries in the early to mid twentieth century the computer semiconductor and telecommunications industries in the late twentieth century we see it again in the software web and business service giants of today the roots of britain s relative weakness at building and sustaining big companies lie in institutions which served it well as an empire powerful financial institutions which invest with a focus on short term gains financial and govenment decisions in the hands of a narrow national elite with generalist educations and little grounding in the particulars of any industry but born to rule companies which stay light on management on capital investment on training and on research and development that these proclivities stay stubornly in place is a classic problem of path dependency of the interlocking and mutually supporting nature of any set of established institutions which restrict the range of choices as things change however you understand the reasons however the fact is that the us is far far better at building and sustaining big companies than the uk and if the uk is operating within the us sphere it is not the uk that will be the home of the trillion dollar companies is it a bad thing that the uk will not become the home of several trillion dollar tech companies not really america s tech empire like britain s empire of yore is a system of appropriation which makes one corner of the world rich at the expense of the rest and it can t even be said that it makes the us as a country rich within the us these tech monopolists and their financial and political enablers enrich particular places particular cities and regions at the expense of the rest of the country as maryann feldman simona iammarino and i discuss with lots of nice maps in this paper there s a similar pattern in the uk with divides between south and north between those paid well enough to live well in overpriced gentrifying tech finance cities and everybody else becoming home to one or more trillion dollar tech companies would only exacerbate these divides cummings and his ilk would do well in that bargain but for the uk as a whole it would not be a good thing so we can be glad that cummings is wrong unfortunately with cummings strategy out the window we are left with the question of what sort of post brexit economic strategy would work for the uk i can t answer that one posted in blog world companies technology innovation locality nation state region globe political economy tagged iammarinosimona marinahyde maryann_feldman rodrikdani bigtech cummings monopoly 1 reply name droppers posted on september 10 2020 by frederick guy ...