People power was vital for defeating the road programme

Jonathan Bray, Director, PTEG Support Unit, Leeds LS1
19 March 2010
 

In the latest of his interesting series of columns I believe that Phil Goodwin has overplayed the role of transport theorists, and underplayed the role of the road protest movement in the demise of the Roads for Prosperity road programme in the nineties.

At the time, the roads protest campaigns at Oxleas Wood and against the London Assessment Studies, and then nationally, via the ALARM UK network, was a massively effective protest movement. The rational arguments against the efficacy of a...

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