Transport’s clash of civilisations

Policies have dramatically changed since 1989 but the legacy of past mistakes is still shaping travel habits

If transport policy was reflected on the ground, the last 20 years would have seen really profound changes in travel, for there have been quite fundamental changes in many aspects of transport policy. In 1989, the Government launched Roads for Prosperity – a huge road programme to widen all the motorways and to build many other major non-motorway roads. I’d just started at Transport 2000 then, and we had really no inkling this was going to happen, because the then Department of...

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