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Looking for the light in a dark age
This is a personal post in an awful week. Today my contribution to Local Transport Today’s 2025 ‘deep thinking’ initiative is published. I’m sorry to say fellow transport planners that it is a sobering take on our problems or predicament. It’s called ‘Looking for the light in a dark age’. When I started my transport… Read more
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What the hell is going on?
Am I alone in finding myself at least once a day, sometimes several times, asking myself ‘What the hell is going on?’. The closer I look the more I have to squint to try and make sense of what I’m seeing, to the point that it it all blurs. This place has been a good… Read more
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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… Read more
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A hard hitting interview that could spoil your Christmas
Please invest 23 minutes of your time Thanks to my longstanding colleague, Professor Jim Longhurst, my attention was drawn to an interview at COP25 in Madrid with Dr Peter Carter (Director of the Climate Emergency Institute and an expert reviewer for the IPCC). I strongly encourage you to invest 23 minutes of your time to watch his interview in full. It would… Read more
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From ugly to beautiful – the case of Le Plessis-Robinson
Want some hope and inspiration? Wondering if it is possible to change things from awful to beautiful? Then step away from what is at the top of your to-do list and spend 13 mins watching this video. To those who have opportunistically weaponised ’15 minute city’ in pursuit of political populism and profit, stop stealing… Read more
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Decide and Provide – a diffusing innovation in a climate emergency
Is a transition in transport planning taking place? Is ‘decide and provide’ an innovation that is diffusing into thinking & practice, or is it following a hype cycle? This evening I had the pleasure of speaking online at the Active Travel Cafe (https://lnkd.in/eerQvtrf) – an inspiring gathering of individuals passionate about….active travel. I’d been asked… Read more
What the hell is going on? 