The battle against car dependency

Case Study: Rainton Bridge

The new Rainton Bridge NPower headquarters

The new Rainton Bridge NPower headquarters

Neil Scales has a phrase that he uses to explain his approach to tackling car dependency in Merseyside - “not car free, but not car free-for-all”. But preventing a car free-for-all in the North of England is going to get harder and harder.

At present, levels of car ownership are lower in the North, especially in the North East, but that looks set change and the challenge is not to allow a culture of car dependency to arise. Peter Huntley’s

Go North East runs buses in the...