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Time for a new letter to the Government?

Phil Goodwin
23 November 2012
Twenty-eight professors signed the letter to Alistair Darling in 2002
Twenty-eight professors signed the letter to Alistair Darling in 2002

 

It's the tenth anniversary this year of the first of these columns – or, rather, a one-off pilot for what became a series later. Under the headline ‘The transport profession needs to remind politicians of some uncomfortable truths’ (LTT 339) it suggested that there was “a completely spurious argument in the air: ‘Road pricing is theoretically best, but politically unacceptable. Public transport is good, but slow and ineffective. So meanwhile we’d better get...

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Phil Goodwin

Phil Goodwin

Phil Goodwin

Phil Goodwin is professor of transport policy at the Centre for Transport and Society, University of West of England, Bristol, and emeritus professor at University College London. Email: philinelh@yahoo.com

 



 

 
 
 

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