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We must learn from our planning mistakes

Recent contributions to LTT suggest that experience and wisdom risk being eclipsed by pragmatism and popularism. The stakes are too high to let this happen

John Dales
21 December 2010
Inter-urban congestion: should we build more capacity or better places? (thanks to freefoto.com)
Inter-urban congestion: should we build more capacity or better places? (thanks to freefoto.com)
Would you not rather walk or cycle to work, if you could? (thanks again to freefoto.com)
Would you not rather walk or cycle to work, if you could? (thanks again to freefoto.com)
High Speed 2: is travelling further, faster, really essential for future economic success?
High Speed 2: is travelling further, faster, really essential for future economic success?

 

This is LTT 561, right? Well, LTT 557 carried a news item covering the main findings from a recent survey of Transport Planning Society members, which showed a strong preference for local transport solutions and ‘slow modes’, compared with new or improved national transport infrastructure. In response to this, Edmund King (president of the AA) wrote a letter, published in LTT 558, essentially mocking the TPS membership by asking whether they think walking and cycling will help ease...

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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
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