theoldpolitics

The thing is the cost of, say, 10 miles of new dual carriageway on average per parliamentary consituency (of course good luck finding available land in many of the most congested areas), would pay fo… (View Post)

It does. Which means the pedestrians have to cross the cycle lane to get from wherever they came from, to the bus stop, and a lot of motoring rights advocates posing as disability rights campaigners … (View Post)

The woeful standard of provision for bikes on trains is something a government with a joined up view of transport would do more to address... (View Post)

Of course no matter what the cycling provision, some lobby group will come out to oppose them. Physical barrier makes complete sense, but brings out the anti-floating-bus-stop brigade. It's also only… (View Post)

Unfortunately across most public policy areas, and transport particularly so, carrots regularly fail - even when the money is available to provide them - because people's behaviour is highly path-dep… (View Post)