Does population rise merit a new generation of car-based suburbs?

Terence Bendixson, Deputy secretary, Independent Transport Commission, University of Southampton
04 December 2009
 

John Wootton makes a good case for inter-urban roads financed by road charges. He then invites debate. One point that needs to be included in that debate is nothing to do with roads. It is what should be done, as the country’s population grows by another ten million, to cater for more cars at the origins and destinations of their journeys.

Space for parking in Britain’s suburbs, cities and even villages is already in short supply. Cars are crammed into all sorts of unlikely places....

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