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So what exactly was wrong with predict and provide?

Vanessa Kovacevic, Newmarket IP28
14 June 2013
 

In his article celebrating the 50th anniversary of Traffic in Towns, John Dales derides those of us who continue to believe that ‘predict and provide’ was not necessarily a bad policy (“The future of urban transport: ‘decide and provide’” LTT 31 May). He instead advocates a ‘decide and provide’ policy.

What is wrong with trying to predict needs in the future and then working to provide them? The predictions always did (or should have) allowed for...

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