Showing posts with label roads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roads. Show all posts
Tuesday, 3 December 2019

Roads, air travel and new technology are where transport investment and subsidy should go - not trains.

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 Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that a comprehensive and affordable public transport system is desirable. Also that it is rig...
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Wednesday, 8 June 2016

Why rail-led modal shift is a myth - and we need different thinking on transport

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**** The data is from Australia but it won't be any different in the UK: In 2013–14, there were 178.5 billion passenger kilometres trav...
Monday, 20 July 2015

If we want to protect the environment, we need to fall in love with the car again

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**** New Start magazine is home to the most predictable and dated of approaches to regeneration. A bunch of folk wrapped in the New Economic...
Saturday, 18 July 2015

If we're to serve tomorrow's economy we need to invest more in roads and less in rail

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Since 2001 rail travel in the UK has increased by over 50% (and has more than doubled since rail privatisation in the 1990s). I'...
Monday, 6 July 2015

Another reminder why we need to spend more money on our roads

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**** Even in London : More than half of Londoners commute to work by car or other light vehicles (including car pools). Transit accounts fo...
Saturday, 27 June 2015

Roads are much more important than railways - public investment should reflect this fact. It doesn't.

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A bit of Britain's most important transport network No matter how desperate the banana republic, the international airport is alwa...
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Saturday, 7 February 2015

Council's haven't enough cash to look after the roads we've got. Why adopt more?

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**** There's a set of reasons for Council highway departments 'adopting' new highway. Partly this is because, if the developer...
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Wednesday, 3 December 2014

The evidence suggests new roads won't generate more journeys.

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**** It has been a commonplace view - supported in the past with some evidence - that building new roads didn't work as a strategy to ...
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Monday, 4 August 2014

So we know who'll build the roads...and that the Council won't like it!

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**** Some 25 or so years ago we were driving around Turkey in a hire car. As we poddled along the main road east from Antalya, we found th...
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Tuesday, 11 March 2014

...but who will build the roads?

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The same sort of folk as built the last lot I guess. Next question please? ....
Tuesday, 25 June 2013

The failings of public transport revisited...

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**** And this is despite all the old folk getting free travel during the period in question: The new developments come after it was re...
Wednesday, 13 February 2013

Potholes...

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**** Every Councillor needs to be on top of the pothole issue and pointing out how the council needs to act and act now to do something (s...
Monday, 24 September 2012

Going anti-clockwise round Coventry - a paen to England's roads

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Today, for reasons that are unimportant to you, dear reader, we drove from the fine old town of Bath back to a very nearly drowned Cu...
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Friday, 20 July 2012

People want their Council to fix the roads...

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**** Perhaps not a surprise to those politicians and bureaucrats actually plugged into real life: A poll by May Gurney suggests the B...
Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Campaign Diary: Days Seven and Eight - white dots and chasing fairies

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  A quiet start to the week - took an evening off from the doorstep as Kathryn had driven to Milton Keynes and back therefore earning rest r...
Sunday, 19 September 2010

Bus travel not stressful? Who're you trying to kid?

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Now I don’t claim to be as clever as the Goldacre chap when it comes to squirreling out dodgy research (although it’s interesting to note th...
Friday, 4 June 2010

Ah, the open road (and why we need more of them)!

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I’m a bit of a fan of roads. As a child I didn ’t have a train set – I had Scalectrix (although my capacity for breaking anything with del...
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Thursday, 27 May 2010

Time to put the trains sets away boys!

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*** The other day, some of Bradford’s finest – including the wonderful John Pennington and Andrew Mason – presented a plan to link the two s...
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