‘This might turn out to be another significant moment’

Arman Farahmand-Razavi offers his personal reflections on a forum that embraced the big issues of our time, and how it has reminded him of past gatherings of the sector’s leading thinkers

Arman Farahmand-Razavi

05 December 2021

The Local Transport Summit 2021 in Brentford was hosted by Hounslow Council

Event presented a wider set of perspectives from a variety of professionals

Echoes of the past? Similar issues were being tackled 25 years ago

Reflecting on the 5th Annual Local Transport Summit in Brentford last month, I felt privileged to be part of a discussion that could come to be seen as a significant moment in the history of professional transport planning in the UK. The significance may not have been the event itself, or any of the individual speakers and their presentations. But after the traumatic experience of the past 18 months it provided a special opportunity to get together physically and to take stock of what had...