Dr Belinda Webb
A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth is still putting on its shoes,” the ever quotable Mark Twain once wrote. This is... continue

As a kid did you conjure up dreams of being a pop star, film star, a medal-winning sporting hero, or maybe even a great inventor? Well like me, as... continue

Jonathan Bray, Pteg support unit
The last spending review gave local transport spending outside London a good hiding. Local transport lacked political clout and there were built-in... continue

Local Transport Today
This week’s review of the Government’s high-speed rail plans by the National Audit Office makes grim reading for the DfT. The NAO makes a... continue

Phil Goodwin
The recent All Party Parliamentary Cycling Inquiry – well reviewed in the last issue of LTT – had results that will continue long past... continue

John Dales
Three months ago, I wrote about the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group’s inquiry into the barriers that are preventing more people from... continue

Local Transport Today
The eagle-eyed LTT reader will no doubt have observed that this issue of the magazine has got rather a lot of cycling coverage in it. Now that is, in... continue

Tony Duckenfield, Steer Davies Gleave
Looking at new registrations of electric and hybrid vehicles (EVs) we can see a worrying slow-down in growth (Figure 1), which is mirrored by a... continue

Lee Baker
The buzz at the Cycle City Expo event was tangible, with early 500 registered delegates all wanting a role in ‘getting Britain cycling’... continue

Mark Moran
A photo of George Osbourne getting into a Range Rover parked in a disabled bay became one of the most controversial images of the past few months.... continue

Brian Dalton, Purley, Surrey CR8
Robert Davis is right to have a jaundiced view of the latest announcements regarding cycling in London (‘Mayor’s cycle vision could get... continue

Alan Wenban-Smith, Urban & Regional Policy
Since Sir Rod Eddington’s report on transport and the economy in 2006, economic growth has been the prime aim of public investment in... continue

Robert Cochrane, Visiting Professor, Imperial College
Derogatory phrases such as “Beeching the Butcher”, or “Beeching’s axe again!” tend to appear whenever there is a... continue

Local Transport Today
The way the news of an expanded road programme leaked out through newspapers this week suggests the Government is already thinking about the General... continue

Adrian Davis, Independent consultant
One hundred and one years after the compulsory appointment of medical officers of health by local authorities, the NHS Reorganisation Act 1973 set in... continue

John Dales
I'm reading a book at the moment called Made to Stick, written by the brothers Heath. It explores how and why certain ideas lodge in the popular... continue

Paul Salveson
I've got my ‘just-in-time’ approach to station arrival times down to a fine art. Check NRES’ live departures a couple of minutes... continue

Roland Graham, Convenor, North West Active Travel Network, West Kirby, Wirral CH48
Boris Johnson’s vision for cycling in London is very encouraging (‘Mayor embraces Dutch thinking in plan for a cycling revolution’... continue

Andrew Forster
Boris Johnson’s vision for cycling in London is brimming with ideas about how to make the capital’s streets more civilised places in... continue

Keith Mitchell, Peter Brett Associates
We have seen unprecedented change in the field of transport policy and planning over the last few years, with the inevitable consequence that there... continue