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By Professor Glenn Lyons

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  • Conspiracy or Cockup? Reports without date of publication

    Conspiracy or Cockup? Reports without date of publication

    Conspiracy or Cockup? Why do so many reports get published with no clear indication of their date of publication? Is it incompetence on the part of the report authors or a deliberate attempt to make their work appear timelessly contemporary? It’s not big and it’s not clever. Stop doing it and put the publication date… Read more

  • Metal mashup of a prime minister’s speech

    Metal mashup of a prime minister’s speech

    I know you’ve been concerned about a range of worrying heavy metal proposals and today I want to confirm that they’ll never happen. The proposal that all Radio One listeners should be forced to listen to heavy metal. I’ve scrapped it. The proposal that you should be forced to listen to seven different types of… Read more

  • An in-depth critique of the new Draft National Policy Statement for National Networks

    An in-depth critique of the new Draft National Policy Statement for National Networks

    In this LONG article I offer my review of the Draft National Policy Statement for National Networks. In doing so, I should point out that (continuing on from other roads related matters of late) my focus is on roads (rather than also considering rail). I should also warn you, this is quite a long article (over 5000… Read more

  • Hurry the hell up – or not: a stocktake on road transport decarbonisation

    Hurry the hell up – or not: a stocktake on road transport decarbonisation

    I know – you can’t take any more. Madness reigns. But here’s a slide deck on how we’re doing on road transport decarbonisation in the UK. Mark Frost asked me to present today at an Urban Design London online event, alongside Aoife Dudley & Esther Kurland. Mark sensibly suggested adding ‘timely’ to the title. I updated the slides again… Read more

  • The trigger event that has led us to EV ownership

    The trigger event that has led us to EV ownership

    Bang! Out of nowhere the other car hit our car. That was 2.15pm last Sunday. Our old petrol car written off. Insurance payout has already come through. Today we paid the deposit on an electric car. This time next week we should have the car at home and the EV charger installed. Some years ago, Ben… Read more

  • We’ve been told so often that economic growth is a good thing that we can’t see past it

    We’ve been told so often that economic growth is a good thing that we can’t see past it

    Cognitive fluency is an unconscious bias whereby things that are harder to understand are less believable. For most of us, we’ve been told so often that economic growth is a good thing that we can’t see past it. The idea of NOT wanting economic growth is unthinkable, even blasphemous to growth worshipers. I found this… Read more