Category: transport

Fast and Loose

The anti-speed camera campaign is based on junk science.

Biofuels could kill more people than the Iraq war.

The climate camp at Heathrow is materially different from protests that have taken place in Britain before.

Though the government is planning a massive expansion of transport networks, it has never considered this question.

We need a global campaign for road safety, but not one controlled by the motor industry.

The government knows that its airport plans will cancel out all its efforts to tackle climate change.

The most miserable of transport modes, the coach, could be used to transform the way we travel.

Until we stop flying

A footnote.

The car is turning us into a nation of libertarians

Why are we still exposed to pollution that kills 39,000 a year?

Even the government’s private finance success story turns out to be a roaring failure

The adoption of biofuels would be a humanitarian and environmental disaster

With only a little tweaking, Labour’s congestion plans could also solve the speeding problem

Any government concerned about global security and climate change should be banning 4x4s

The centenary of the Wright brothers’ flight should be a day of international mourning.

Britain is turning into one big runway, thanks to publicly subsidised misery

Local economies will prosper only by cutting their global links

The purpose of the Hastings bypass is to increase congestion on the South coast, paving the way for a motorway

Farmers should be campaigning for more expensive fuel