There is something extraordinary happening out there in relation to driverless cars. But it is not quite what you think – or have been led to believe. The spending on the development of autonomous vehicles is quite unprecedented. I am not sure in the history of transport whether so much has been spent on a single concept. We’ve had railway booms, and explosions of road building but nothing on...

  The City of London has become by far the most radical local authority in Britain. It closed Bank, one of the busiest junctions in the City, to all traffic except buses and cyclists during working hours and is now embarked on a policy of trying to shift modal share radically away from cars. Cycling though the City has tripled over the past decade andthe whole transport strategy is...