Category: transport

It Won’t Fly

Air travel is on track to account for almost all our emissions by 2050. So why aren’t we working to reduce demand?

Petromasculinity not only kills people on the road. It spills into our politics, fuelling far-right individualism.

A massive new road scheme will solve precisely nothing, while costing the Earth.

How to create an appearance of progress while doing nothing.

Privatisation and austerity don’t cut costs: they just pass them on to us.

How do HS2 and other white elephants get commissioned? It’s clientelism – the subtle form of corruption.

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods transform people’s lives and rebuild community. Resist the angry men trying to destroy them.

While millions starve, crops are used to feed cars. It’s obscene.

Let’s create communities from which we scarcely have to travel.

Land Rover’s proposals that we use its SUVs for urban safaris shows how cars have been licensed to damage our lives.

Cars are ruining our lives. We should cut their use by 90% over the next 10 years

Pollution is now the biggest threat to children’s health. So why is it so neglected?

The crucial decisions about major infrastructure are made behind closed doors.

How the waste and inefficiency of neoliberalism attacks our children’s health

Electric cars address only a small part of the problem – we need to rethink the whole crazy transport system.

We have enough physical and ecological space for public luxury for all. But not enough for private luxury for all.

A short, simple factsheet on the impacts of traffic pollution on children’s health

Sorry, but you cannot build new runways and prevent climate breakdown

There are plenty of brilliant plans for getting us moving without trashing the planet. So why aren’t they happening?

I see the people on trial for occupying a runway at Heathrow as democratic heroes.