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Problems with telling the truth

Paul Withrington, Director, Transport-Watch, Northampton
03 November 2010
 

Rod King makes the unfounded statements against me saying that I “mistakenly mixed up a reduction in average speed with average journey time speed” and that I failed to understand the “very clear benefits from lower speeds”

In contradiction to that we reported that if all link speeds were reduced by 5 mph the annual cost of the time delay would be close to £17 bn and that the corresponding casualty saving would be circa £3 bn.  Here are the numbers in...

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