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We put the recycling out on Earth Day 2024 – well done us!
It’s #EarthDay 2024 today. And it’s recycling collection for the Lyons household today – well done us, just look at that blue bin brimming over with….packaging. Wikipedia reminds us that “In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be observed on March Read more
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I’m sick of climate science. And climate activists.
I’m sick of climate science. And climate activists. Between them they seem to have created a cult that has spread like a virus. Their alarmism is a noise that is disrupting our way of life and seeking to cause concern where it is just not warranted. Let’s be honest, we’ve done very well out of Read more
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New introductory video for the Triple Access Planning Handbook (and Copilot’s attempt to distinguish between TAP and traditional transport planning!)
I wanted to know what AI makes of Triple Access Planning. Having asked Copilot to provide concise definitions of transport planning and of TAP it then suggested I ask it “How is Triple Access Planning different from traditional transport planning?”. Here’s the answer it gave. Triple Access Planning (TAP) diverges from traditional transport planning in Read more
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This trial has been going on now some three years. What are Government waiting for?
“This trial has been going on now some three years. What are Government waiting for? Because a trial will result in two things, wont it Glenn. Either (A) they’ll be legal and you can go and buy one from the shop and use it, or (B) they’ll shove them all back in their boxes and Read more
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Predict or decide? How ‘triple access planning’ can change placemaking
Hidden in plain sight 👀. Thank you to The Planner RTPI and Simon Wicks 🤘 for allowing me to write The Planner Essay this month on… wait for it … Triple Access Planning. Our new practitioners’ handbook on TAP emphasises three important dimensions of planning that have been hidden in plain sight: 1️⃣ 👀 DIGITAL Read more
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Triple Access Planning – a diffusing innovation that reflects our new look world
What is Triple Access Planning? To mark the launch of ‘Triple Access Planning for Uncertain Futures – A Handbook for Practitioners’, Local Transport Today (TransportXtra) offered me a feature article slot to introduce TAP, explain its origins and give people an overview of the new Handbook. You can find the article below. The article is Read more
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I wasn’t very green. I was probably at my worst a decade ago.
I wasn’t very green. I was probably at my worst a decade ago. Way over my allowance for a fair, sustainable human existence on planet earth. I was in the Matrix too – consuming mainstream media, viewing the world through my airbrushed education. I support the view that we need to change the system. We Read more
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Triple Access Planning for Uncertain Futures – A Handbook for Practitioners
📢 We are delighted to announce that today our new Handbook is launched. ‘Triple Access Planning for Uncertain Futures – A Handbook for Practitioners’ is available to download for free. The main Handbook is in English. A summary version is also available in Dutch, English, Italian, Slovenian and Swedish. You can download it directly from Read more
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Triple Access Planning: Changing transport planning in a changing world
“Should the Transport Planning Society become the Triple Access Planning Society?” asks Stephen Cragg, Head of Appraisal and Model Development at Transport Scotland. The LATIS service is operated by Transport Scotland with the objective to meet the appraisal and modelling needs of the Scottish Government. LATIS stands for Land-use And Transport Integration in Scotland. Stephen is also putting forward Read more
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“See that bloke over there? That’s Lemmy’s dad”
“See that bloke over there? That’s Lemmy’s dad”. I’ll never forget that, doing my work experience after O-Levels (remember them?) at Salisbury Cattle Market. And there he was, allegedly, the father of one of the metal gods. I didn’t pluck up the courage at the time to speak to him. What a missed opportunity. A Read more
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This post could be a waste of time – because the people it is really about wont be able to comment
I’ve discovered over the last few years that the engagement and comments I see on my LinkedIn posts are potentially the tip of the iceberg of people reading the posts. I regularly get private messages with words to the effect that ‘you said what I was thinking but I’m not allowed to say, or daren’t Read more
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Breaking news – New Zealand Government unveils time travel – back to 2009
Breaking news – New Zealand Government unveils time travel – back to 2009. When I went to NZ in 2014 I was told ‘planning’ was a dirty word and that the Roads of National Significance were nicknamed ‘Roads of Significance to the Nationals’. On 6 March (two days ago) the draft NZ Government Policy Statement Read more
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This is a crucial period of reckoning for strategic road investment in the British Isles. Scotland, Wales and Ireland have targets for reducing car traffic by 2030. The Wales Roads Review outcomes were made public last month. The Parliamentary Transport Committee currently has an open Inquiry into Strategic Road Investment in England. Having submitted written…
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Shouldn’t a government with a legally binding commitment to decarbonise commit to road traffic reduction? It seems England is special. Scotland, Wales and Ireland all have targets set by their national governments to reduce car driven miles. England doesn’t. Yesterday the RAC Foundation published an important piece of work that set the following exam question: Is it…
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Did you hear the $40 billion joke about people, planet and profit? We need to restore biodiversity and reduce global emissions on the planet. People need to change behaviours to help this to help themselves. But perish the thought that such trifling matters should get in the way of profit. It’s a joke. P.S. If…
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Seeing beyond white male privilege in the transport sector – my submission to the Transport Committee. Shaping the future of transport is not just about emerging technologies. Judgements are everywhere: judgements about what to invest in; judgements in analysis that supports judgements about what to invest in; judgements about who should judge what to invest…
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“The Earth has all the time in the world and we don’t.” Three years ago next month I was sat in an office on Broadway in New York watching footage on my laptop of one of my heroes, Greta Thunberg, addressing up to 30,000 people in Bristol, the home of my university. It was the…
What the hell is going on? 