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By Professor Glenn Lyons

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  • Place your bets now please – do we need road traffic reduction?

    Place your bets now please – do we need road traffic reduction?

    Shouldn’t a government with a legally binding commitment to decarbonise commit to road traffic reduction? It seems England is special. Scotland, Wales and Ireland all have targets set by their national governments to reduce car driven miles. England doesn’t. Yesterday the RAC Foundation published an important piece of work that set the following exam question: Is it… Read more

  • Transitioning to Net Zero

    Transitioning to Net Zero

    I’ve just taken part in the first 2024 webinar from the Association of European Transport’s Transport and Mobility Forum. Hosted by Conall Mac Aongusa, Chaired by Derek Halden and with Susan Krumdieck and Elizabete Arsenio alongside me on the Panel, we got stuck into the wicked matter of the future ahead of us and what… Read more

  • At work in the ruins

    At work in the ruins

    I feel a low level sense of grief for the naivety & ignorance I have left behind – when I was inside the Matrix, consuming as if magic put the shiny fresh things in the shops, consuming the trivia & the air-brushed media, believing that grown ups existed whose job it was to make everything… Read more