Transport planners know that new roads don’t solve jams

Keith Buchan, Director MTRU, Board member, Transport Planning Society, London
26 November 2010
 

Edmund King was surprised by the Transport Planning Society’s survey showing only 9% prioritised major trunk road building. Frankly, to an extent, so was I. However, it only took me a moment to understand why our members, many of whom have worked on such schemes, reached this conclusion.

The first is the obvious one. Without a sensible charging framework such schemes do not and cannot deliver congestion relief. The second is that land-use planning, and employment and housing choices, are...

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