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Traffic: can we have our cake and eat it?

John Dales finds some ‘new’ ways of managing vehicular and pedestrian movement that are based on lasting values

John Dales
05 June 2009
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My eye was recently caught by a leaflet advertising a forthcoming conference entitled ‘Delivering better traffic management: latest developments and techniques’ – that’s what happens when things drop out of your LTT – and I thought I’d investigate further. In doing so, I found that one of the speakers is proposing to let us in on the secret of how London’s mayor proposes to ‘smooth’ traffic flow at nil detriment to the movement of...

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John Dales

John Dales

John Dales MSC BSC MCIHT CMILT Director, Urban Mov

John Dales is a streets design adviser to local authorities around the UK, a member of several design review panels, and one of the London mayor’s design advocates. He is a past chair of the Transport Planning Society, a former trustee of Living Streets, and a committee member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety. He is director of transport planning and street design consultancy Urban Movement. 

 

j.dales@urbanmovement.co.uk
+44 (0)7768 377 150
www.johndales.com

 

 
 
 

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