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Online abuse of planners could deflect transport policy

05 March 2026
 

The abuse which transport planners suffer online and in other places from opponents of proposed changes is making scheme delivery difficult, Damien Jones, Chair of the Association of Transport Co-ordinating Officers has warned.

At the session of the House of Commons Transport Committee, he gave the example of bus priority proposals encountering so much resistance from some objectors that schemes were watered down. “The transport planners who are trying to introduce  these things by...

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