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Sides becoming more entrenched over HS2
The only strange aspect of the growing controversy over HS2 is that it has taken so long to come to ...
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Are the new roads really needed?
For a long time, there has been very little published about the role of roads and the future priorities in ...
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Time to consign yellow lines to history
I’ve always hated yellow lines. And that’s not because they stop me from parking where I want, since I ...
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Boris cycle plan: fact or fiction?
The London Mayor’s Vision for Cycling could be a landmark in UK policy on cycling even though there are numerous ...
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Innovation ignored at our peril
The 150th anniversary of the Tube, celebrated with steam engines being operated on the system for the first time in ...
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Britain still hesitant about innovation especially in transport
I have seen the future. Or have I? in 2012, I came across a wide variety of transport innovations and ...
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Gothenburg’s vision of sustainability
It’s easy to dismiss foreign experience as irrelevant because each country and culture has its particular institutions and history. However, ...
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My mayoral campaign
I’ve decided to put my money where my mouth is. Or rather stick my head above the parapet by trying ...
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Will we get a cycling legacy from the Olympics
One of the oft hoped-for legacies of the Olympics is that the successes of the athletes will translate into more ...
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Safety, the hidden success story – except the roads
One of the unheralded successes of recent years has been the massive progress on transport safety. On the railways, there ...
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Can the railways be decentralised?
Localism, decentralisation, devolution – these words have become the motherhood and apple pie of the Coalition government. They are, after ...
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Heathrow pods are an idea for the future
There is a constant search for innovation in transport. I’ve lost count of the number of new methods of transport ...
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Olympics – is it crying wolf or is chaos looming
I have been asked numerous times by various TV and radio stations, including several foreign ones, to comment on the ...
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Cameron on road to nowhere
We have been here before. Lots of times. The idea of trying to turn the roads into some form of ...
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Parking scam is real war on motorist
When the Conservatives talk about the War on the Motorist which they are keen to end, they tend to focus ...
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Boris airport plan will not get off the ground
They were talking about Boris Island on Radio 5 the other day. We’ve already got Boris bikes, the tortuously alliterative ...
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Cycle deaths becoming political issue
The issue of cycling deaths has soared up the political agenda in recent months, especially in London where every fatality ...
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Shaky basis for the 80mph limit
The ‘war on the motorist’ is still raging among the Tory faithful. Or rather, the war against the war on ...
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