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Why are we planning to spend so much on new roads when we live in an information age?

David Metz, University College London
17 December 2014
David Metz is visiting professor at the Centre for Transport Studies, University College London, and author of Peak Car – the Future of Travel published by Landor LINKS.
David Metz is visiting professor at the Centre for Transport Studies, University College London, and author of Peak Car – the Future of Travel published by Landor LINKS.

 

The Government has published its long-heralded Road Investment Strategy (RIS) containing £15bn of expenditure to 2021 on 127 major schemes to improve and enlarge the Strategic Road Network (SRN). One aspiration of the vision is a “free-flow core network, with mile a minute speeds increasingly typical”. Nice idea, but how realistic is this? The supporting analysis is decidedly thin.

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