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By Professor Glenn Lyons

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  • Hell awaits

    Hell awaits

    In today’s episode of What The Hell Is Going On we hear from UK ministers and the UN Secretary General. Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General (20 September): Humanity has “opened gates to hell” by letting climate crisis worsen Mark Harper, UK Secretary of State for Transport (2 October): “There’s nothing wrong with driving”, “We can Read more

  • The vote is the most nonviolent tool we have

    The vote is the most nonviolent tool we have

    “The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have” (John Lewis); “There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter” (Barack Obama). You’ve got to be in it to win it on 4 July 2024. Imagine not having to vote tactically, a democracy where politians were elected in proportion to which party voters Read more

  • The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader

    The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader

    “The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader”. So says Derek Sivers in this excellent 3-minute TED Talk about starting a movement: https://youtu.be/hO8MwBZl-Vc?si=V5kx8OH_mtOEpl8G. It seemed very apt to use for the Decide and Provide session at the Annual TRICS User Meeting at The Magic Circle in London today. I stood up Read more

  • Predict or decide? How ‘triple access planning’ can change placemaking

    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

  • The Matrix is coming…in fact it’s already here

    The Matrix is coming…in fact it’s already here

    I thought in the future we might be living in the Matrix. Now I realise many have been all along. In 1999 one of the most amazing films ever (in my book) was released, ‘The Matrix’. It was written by the Wachowskis, two sisters who are trans women. That alone is probably enough to get Read more

  • A Triple Access Planning fairytale?

    A Triple Access Planning fairytale?

    Once upon a time there was a paradigm called ‘predict and provide’. It was where transport planning lived and where forecasts of most likely futures reigned and dictated how people invested in transport, particularly in roads for cars. Then the world started to change and some started to say we had ‘had too much of Read more