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Place your bets on the future of transport decarbonisation
The Parliamentary Transport Committee’s report on strategic road investment published today recognises that the Government is gambling with our future when it comes to decarbonisation. Having led the Road Investment Scrutiny Panel (RISP) with Professor Steve Gooding which reported earlier this year (with Professors Jillian Anable, Nicola Christie, Zoe Davies, Stephen Glaister, Phil Goodwin, & Karen Lucas, supported by Andrew Crudgington)… Read more
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Deafening silence is the sound of a thousand silent screams
You hear that? It’s the sound of thousands of silent screams. When news breaks and people who know a thing or two about the subject aren’t saying anything it’s the deafening silence that results. Sometimes we find ourselves between a rock and a hard place. The best we can do to be our authentic selves… Read more
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Road Investment Scrutiny Panel report is published
Eight professors speak with one voice about their concerns for the future of road investment in a new report published today. We face a climate emergency. We face a nature emergency. We face social injustice. We have 190,000 miles of roads in England to maintain. In 2021, 1,558 people were killed on Britain’s roads. We… Read more
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Did you hear the $40 billion joke about people, planet and profit?
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… Read more
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I get to wear my Highway to Hell t-shirt professionally for a look to the future of roads
Highway to hell? Yes, my dream has come true – a ‘well-suited’ (get it?) pose in a metal T-shirt in the latest edition of Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) Transportation Professional publication to talk about ‘Seeing the Road Ahead’. I have a feeling – in the UK at least – that in the transport sector… Read more
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Tea ladies
No disrespect to tea ladies, but have you been mistaken for one? Our brains can be very quick to judge and form impressions. When you go into a meeting or interview, how conscious are you of being wrongly judged or of being too quick to judge others? Search online for ‘mistaken for the tea lady’.… Read more
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