Public transport not the answer?

Getting more people on to public transport may not be the solution to a greener future and could worsen our environmental problems worse, Professor Stephen Glaister, head of transport and infrastructure, Imperial College London, has warned.

Speaking at a Transit/Go Ahead-sponsored fringe meeting at last week’s Labour Party conference in Manchester this week, Glaister explained that more than 90% of the mechanised transport of people in the UK is by car, therefore if public transport use...