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Boosting walking and cycling will ease jams for motorists

Richard George, Roads and climate campaigner, Campaign for Better Transport, London N1
26 November 2010
 

I was quite surprised to read Edmund King’s letter in the last issue (ibid), in which he asked, presumably rhetorically, what impact walking and cycling could have on inter-urban congestion. The answer, as ever, is ‘more than you think’.

As successive transport ministers have explained, outside of the rush hour inter-urban trunk roads simply aren’t that congested. Instead, according to Sir Rod Eddington at least, over 80% of congestion is in urban areas. Here, promoting...

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