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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

  • The only way is ethics – making your way in your career and being true to yourself

    The only way is ethics – making your way in your career and being true to yourself

    Are you in a good place in your career? Have you found a role and team that optimise you, that allow you to be your authentic self and boost your wellbeing? Our careers are, typically, long journeys with lots of twists and turns. They are a big part of our lives and it seems evident… 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

  • 666 ppm – the Number of the Beast – it is a human number 🤘

    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

  • My chance to give oral evidence to the Parliamentary Transport Committee

    My chance to give oral evidence to the Parliamentary Transport Committee

    This is a crucial period of reckoning for strategic road investment in the British Isles. Scotland, Wales and Ireland have targets for reducing car traffic by 2030. The Wales Roads Review outcomes were made public last month. The Parliamentary Transport Committee currently has an open Inquiry into Strategic Road Investment in England. Having submitted written… Read more

  • The Driverless Cars Emulsion – are you ready to come together?

    The Driverless Cars Emulsion – are you ready to come together?

    Driverless cars – it can be a divisive topic. Some people love them. Some people hate them. The lovers and the haters are like oil and water in my experience. They just don’t come together well – they don’t like mixing. Yet oil and water can be helped to mix by adding an emulsifier. Hence… Read more