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Climate change makes DfT’s road traffic forecasts irrelevant

Chris Barker, Hornsey, London N8
02 April 2015
 

Forecasting road traffic growth goes blithely on (ibid), without reference to the elephant in the room. Predict and provide still reigns, totally ignoring the urgent need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, which makes all the DfT’s forecasts pointless.

The European Commission’s scenario is that we need to eliminate practically all greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and it is proposing a 60 per cent reduction below 1990 levels by 2040. 

Even the lowest of the DfT’s road...

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