Transport Insights

The latest (December) issue of highways magazine includes my first piece for the publication as a freelance since I left in March – and it’s a good one

The article features an interview with “two stalwarts of transport planning who recently told a prestigious European conference that the way we choose which transport projects to spend money on needs to change”.

The two are John Elliott and Derek Turner CBE, who between them have 100 years working experience, including as leading lights of the Local Authority Technical Advisers Group.

The conference was the European Transport Conference in Antwerp and their paper was titled: “Time for Transport Planning to Reflect Real Priorities based on Facts?”

Anyone who knows either of them will know that the answer from their point of view is very much yes.

Unfortunately, the edit of the article loses my very funny joke based on the fact that the Department for Transport’s forthcoming Appraisal, Modelling and Evaluation Strategy is called AMES for short.

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