“The madness of cars” – Peter Hitchens on the country’s “irrational” transport history
Today on Highways Voices, we talk “the madness of cars” with journalist and author Peter Hitchens, who is writing a book with that name arguing that Britain’s transport infrastructure has wrongly been built around the motor vehicle, and that we are suffering today from the effects of flawed transport policy of the 1960s onwards. He […]
New book suggests post pandemic travel policy focussing on travel being a “basic right”
The transport and land use think tank, the Independent Transport Commission, has released a book calling for new assessment appraisal for transport policy and investment decisions, shifting from ‘predict and provide’ to ‘vision and validate’, based on notion that travel is not simply about derived demand but is useful in itself. Why Travel? Understanding our […]