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- • The typefaces of Britain – Johnston and Gill Sans (Beeb)
- • The Creepier Line (Northern City) (David Scard)
- • Crossrail symbolized the Future. Then Came Brexit. (NY Times)
- • Road investment not clear route to local economic growth (Centre for Cities)
- • Cell phones don’t make walking dangerous – car-based cities do (StreetsBlog)
- • DLR originally planned as a tram (Ian Visits)
- • US wastes $73bn a year looking for parking (GeekWire)
- • DC Silver Line Metro struggling because of poor land use (Washington Post)
The Centre for Cities’ report is pertinent and demonstrates just how much money may have been wasted on road construction in the name of economic development. But it is not new being at least the fourth major study coming to the same conclusion since the Leitch Report (Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment) in about 1980. But none of these seem to have filtered through properly. Perhaps it’s another example of people only being prepared to believe what they want to believe.
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Actually “Buchanan” pointed this out, long before, simply by showing how much rebuilding & destruction would be “necessary” to full accomodate an auoto-centred town or city or country.
Buchanan Report for information – I have the Penguin version.