Cost-benefit analysis doesn’t justify slowing down traffic

Paul Withrington, Director, Transport Watch, Northampton
26 November 2010
 

Why is it that numbers are ignored in favour of unsubstantiated opinion (LTT letters from Lance Fogg, Edward Gibbins and Rod King)?

Rod King says that I “mistakenly mixed up a reduction in average speed with average journey time speed” and that I failed to understand the “very clear benefits from lower speeds” (LTT 1 Oct). In contradiction to that we reported that if all speeds were cut by 5mph the annual cost of time delays would be close to £17bn and the...

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