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What I want for my Birthday
It’s my 40th birthday! So let’s look back at the progress of the last 4 decades and speculate on what will come in the next 4 decades.
7/10 for Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire are so close to a nationally significant transport experiment. But the A40 upgrades just miss the mark
Time for a frequent flyer levy
A citizens’ assembly said we should charge more for frequent flights. It’s right.
Is “Just Walk Out” retail a vision of the future?
Amazon Fresh's "Just walk out" technology eliminates supermarket checkouts entirely. We need to take note.
Mobility credits
Let's give everyone £500 in transport vouchers when they move house or have a baby
Let’s Stop Building Roads. Wales Has!
Wales has stopped building new roads. England must follow suit. For that to happen we must stop listening to traffic engineers telling us that 'one more lane' will do the trick.
These are the (Second best??) transport films ever made
Your suggestions for the best transport films of all time
Where is the National Roads Strategy?
We have strategies for buses, bikes and trains. But what about where most journeys happen; roads?
Bus Back Better: Mission Impossible or Never say never?
BSIP guidance is sweeping and ambitious. But it's also hyper-centralised and silent on the funding
a boring (Company) post
Elon Musk claims to have unveiled the future of public transport. But it’s a car tunnel.
We’ve always had road pricing. Why are we abolishing it?
Turnpikes and fuel tax mean that we’ve always charged for use of roads. We mustn’t stop now.
What next for the PLCs?
What does the future hold for the transport PLCs in the new world?
These are the best Transport films ever made
The best films (involving transport) ever made
Active travel
The Government's cycling strategy is ambitious, visionary, detailed, intelligent… and largely unfunded
Sir Michael Holden on the Williams Review
Now we finally know what the Williams Shapps Plan says, I get together with Sir MIchael Holden to discuss it
Will the guiding mind be New Network Rail?
Have you ever used a hedge trimmer to make jam? No? So don’t put Network Rail in charge of train fares.