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As we face the greatest fight of our professional lives we need transport planners with super powers
On Tuesday 14 April I spoke with Michelle Wood and Brogan McPherson from PTRC for the first time about an event – a ‘fireside chat’ – they were thinking of running looking at COVID-19 and transport and wanted me to Chair. Nine days later we ran a panel discussion operating on Zoom and live streaming to YouTube. 1,200 people had registered… Read more
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666 ppm – the Number of the Beast – it is a human number 🤘
666 parts per million of CO2. Woe to you oh earth and sea. In 1982 when I was 13 or 14 I bought ‘The Number of The Beast’ as a red vinyl single. Isn’t it beautiful? Blood red. It was my first gig when I was 13 – the Number of the Beast Tour. Front… Read more
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Anti-aviation? Only kidding – UK Government response to Climate Change Committe
“We are anti aviation” says UK Government as of yesterday. Actually it says “We are anti-aviation emissions”. It is looking at 70% passenger demand growth by 2050 on 2018 levels and claiming aviation will be net zero by 2050. What the 2022 Jet Zero Strategy calls ‘net zero aviation’ amounts in fact to an aim… Read more
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My journey by train from the UK to Southern Spain
My family left our rented villa in southern Spain at 7am this Saturday morning. A few hours later and they are already home. They flew. I will arrive home two whole days after them IF things go to schedule. Today it’s Malaga-Madrid-Barcelona, youth hostel overnight. Tomorrow is Barcelona-Paris, hotel overnight. Monday is Paris-London-local station. Some… Read more
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Seeing beyond white male privilege in the transport sector – my submission to the Transport Committee
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… Read more
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Cartoons get to the heart of the insanity of real life
Cartoons are powerful. They cut through faff and verbosity and get to the point. And they generally amuse us because they resonate so strongly with the insanity of real life. Tim Gent suggested yesterday that bringing over an old thread from Twitter I generated back in July 2021 might be worth doing. I was reluctant to… Read more
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