Campaigners and lobbyists generally focus their efforts on promoting the interests of particular mode users or a key issue like safety, or an aspect of policy like fuel duty or speed limit enforcement. Here is an alphabetical list of the most well known and influential groups in the UK. As ever with this site, notice [...]
Skilfully selective reference to environmental concerns by policy-shapers has enabled governments to increase the extent to which use of motorised transport can be taxed in practice. Some critics of trends in transport charges in the UK go as far as saying that even the enforcement of speed limits by automated cameras has become little more [...]
There are two fundamental reasons why prevailing trends in UK traffic management fail to deliver improvement in solving the many problems arising from congestion, and increase costs in time and money for the majority of road users. The commercialisation of traffic regulation enforcement is one. That source of policy-shaping rot began with the ‘decriminalising of [...]
We all recognise congestion when we see a traffic jam. But the real causes of congestion are buried beneath a great deal of disinformation and misguided ‘common knowledge’. The seemingly obvious and widely accepted explanation for congestion is that there are too many vehicles for the infrastructure to cope with. But what gets left out [...]
Speed triggers polemic views that often carry a high emotional charge. On the one hand speed is seen as a demonic cause of death and mayhem, and something to be cut wherever possible especially on roads. On the other, and especially for trains, high speed is seen as the key to transport efficiency. But the [...]