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Better urban design is essential for more sustainable travel

The achievement of truly sustainable travel patterns

John Dales
11 June 2010
The alternatives to car travel in badly located, poorly connected housing estates surrounded by generous highways just aren’t credible...
The alternatives to car travel in badly located, poorly connected housing estates surrounded by generous highways just aren’t credible...
…but where new development helps pay for new or better alternatives – like a new station – there’s hope.
…but where new development helps pay for new or better alternatives – like a new station – there’s hope.

 

Earlier this week, I spoke (mercifully briefly, from the delegates’ point of view) at the annual ACT TravelWise conference. For those who don’t know, ACT is the acronym for the former Association of Commuter Transport, and the primary focus of what ACT TravelWise now does is on encouraging the greater use of sustainable travel modes.

The reason I’d been asked to speak for just five minutes was principally (but perhaps not solely!) because I was one of six people in a session...

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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
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