Author Archives: Leon Mannings

Transport professionals faith in climate change agenda takes big hit as top UK Journal describes ‘major blow’ to public trust

6 December 2009 – 9:03 am

Although the title and content of Local Transport Today (LTT) might suggest that its greatest role might be as the featured anorak mag on Have I Got News for you, it is a twice monthly bible and font of wisdom for the top, and most influential transport professionals in Britain. And, as such, it is [...]

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Climategate: Leaked emails scandal, What scandal? Inquiry looms for climate change science but will it knock wheels off the global warmers wagon – or be just another brick in the wall to divide believers and sceptics?

29 November 2009 – 10:06 am

Whatever you think about man-made climate change and worldwide plans to cut personal mobility and spend trillions on addressing the global warming ‘problem’, there is no doubt that we are reaching a critical and potentially dangerous turning point. The point is this. After some resistance an inquiry is now looming to investigate a momentous leak [...]

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Does the return of rising traffic congestion in Britain herald the end of recession or highlight regressive trends in pricing and performance for privately owned ‘public’ transport?

16 November 2009 – 6:22 am

What do you give the beleaguered British traveller or mover of goods who is attempting to do so by rail? How about the UK’s first rail fare to break the £1,000 barrier? As noted by the Guardian. Then juxtapose this ‘public transport’ pricing landmark with news that road congestion is on the rise again after [...]

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Scepticism over climate change makes it harder for UK government to impose ‘carbon-reducing’ rises in energy bills – but opinions divide over £6m Ad to scare UK kids with Carbon Monster story

2 November 2009 – 12:19 pm

Plans to increase tax on fuel and energy supplies in the name of tackling climate change are being greeted with increasing scepticism and hostility as the ongoing financial crisis sharpens views on what people are prepared to do to ‘save the planet’ from climate change. Now, the BBC says that the UK government has is [...]

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Climate summit crisis countdown 42 days to go! Can the world be saved by Transport of delight?

26 October 2009 – 7:04 am

As the late great Douglas Adams revealed in one of the finest books about transport, travel and everything ever, namely; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy, the answer to the question; what is the meaning of life? Is 42. (As the BBC explain here) And, lest you have forgotten the stern warning that our Prime [...]

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