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Cometh the hour, cometh the car?

Garrett Emmerson is chair of the Local Transport Planning Network, a member of the Commission for Integrated Transport and head of transportation at Buckinghamshire County Council. The views expressed in this column are those of the author alone.
29 March 2007
 

As regular readers will know, I am a regular and enthusiastic bus user as well as an occasional (and slightly less keen!) cyclist. However, those who know me well also know that I should probably own up to another, slightly less environmentally 'pc' addiction - that, in common with much of the rest of the nation, I am also a bit of a closet, classic car loving, petrol-headed car enthusiast!

One of the ways I silently feed this addiction is through regular 'fixes' of enthusiast magazines. Apart...

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