Thoughts, insights and rants about futures, climate change, system change, transport, wicked problems, EDI, and heavy metal

By Professor Glenn Lyons

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  • Periodic reminder that Metal says it like it is

    Your periodic reminder that Metal says it like it is. Thank you Prong. New York metalheads originating from the 80s and this year’s serving – ‘Breaking Point’: “It’s got to stop. It’s got to endPeople have had enoughThe flat out lies, all untrueWhat is said you cannot trustThey demand that you agreeWith ideas you can’t…

  • The future of highways – a perspective from Mott MacDonald

    Do you know I was a setting out engineer on a by-pass construction in the 1990s? I also worked in a consultancy designing by-pass schemes in Wales then. Both as a student civil engineer. I haven’t strongly associated myself with highways in the many years in between. However, more recently I’ve had the honour of…

  • Climate action, including blockading of the A12 in the Netherlands

    More climate action comes from more people taking climate action. I’ve not been brave enough to expose myself to risk of arrest. I think I may be more use to the cause by taking action through being a constructively challenging professional alongside changing my personal behaviours. What action are you taking or would you like…

  • The Plan for Drivers makes me want to stand and scream at the world

    If you haven’t heard about The Plan for Drivers then you must have been asleep this week under a pavement-parked super-sized vehicle. To end this farcical few days in transport planning in the UK (England), I have had the privilege of being asked by The Planner RTPI to write an opinion piece on this vote-chasing fodder that…

  • ‘He lied and lied’ – an attack on climate policy?

    “He lied and lied”. This is a bold headline to level at a sitting prime minister. A reminder of the Seven Principles of Public Life: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, Leadership. They’re important aren’t they? A bedrock upon which we should expect politics of any colour to be founded? Of course if you don’t…

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