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We don’t need big transport projects or road pricing

Stephen Plowden, London NW1
22 February 2013
 

Peter Brett Associates chairman Keith Mitchell says that “the need for investment in our strategic and local infrastructure is clear” (Letters LTT 08 Feb). The rest of his letter makes it plain that he has both road and rail infrastructure in mind.

However, the need is to reduce the number and length of motorised journeys. This is primarily a problem of better management through reforms to the regulatory and fiscal framework within which transport decisions are taken. Of course,...

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