The UK government

ducking the big question

While the Dutch were announcing their radical plans to cut carbon emissions from transport through the introduction of a nationwide road user charging scheme, our own transport secretary, Lord Adonis, was offering his own vision of a greener future. Giving a speech about low carbon transport at an event organised by Campaign for Better Transport in London, Adonis charmed another audience with his grasp of the transport brief, and passion for it. However, he dodged the issue of achieving modal...

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