BBC shocked by concept of ‘peak car’ and questions need for more roads

The BBC’s transport correspondent, Richard Westcott, has discovered the concept of ‘peak car’ and used this in a recent online article to suggest that the Government’s current road building plans might, possibly, be somewhat misguided.

Recent research by Imperial College and UCL into levels of car use in the UK (LTT 7 Dec) formed the basis of an analysis of the concept of ‘peak car’ by the BBC’s transport correspondent, Richard Westcott. “The BBC has been given the first look at research into something very strange, even shocking, that’s been happening on Britain’s roads over the past decade or so,” Westcott said on the BBC’s website on 3 December. “It’s been right...

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