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Friday 11 July 2003
Transport and its discontents
Critics of the UK government’s roads policy say nothing radical, new...or even critical.

Wednesday 25 June 2003
Don't trip and drive
The UK Department for Transport gets groovy for Glastonbury.

Wednesday 2 April 2003
Get on your bus
The message of the UK government's new transport policy: if the 'socially excluded' want to travel, they'd better have a good reason.

Thursday 27 March 2003
Steaming ahead
On its fortieth anniversary, the Beeching Report looks positively progressive compared to today's transport policy.

Tuesday 11 March 2003
The not-so Good Life
The government's energy policy will take the UK down an exhausting route.

Thursday 19 December 2002
The Smoke clears
We've come a long way since the smog days of 1952.

Thursday 19 December 2002
The Smoke clears
We've come a long way since the smog days of 1952.

Thursday 28 November 2002
For whom the road tolls
The 'blue skies' thinking for UK transport is…find more and more ways to stop people from driving.

Thursday 28 November 2002
For whom the road tolls
The 'blue skies' thinking for UK transport is…find more and more ways to stop people from driving.

Tuesday 19 November 2002
Driving deprivation
A new report finds a correlation between child deaths in car accidents and poverty - or is it rain?

Tuesday 19 November 2002
Driving deprivation
A new report finds a correlation between child deaths in car accidents and poverty - or is it rain?

Friday 19 July 2002
Baltic Centre: Gateshead to what?
The North-East's new Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts is a first-rate community centre, with very little art.

Tuesday 23 October 2001
Off the rails
When it suspended Railtrack, the UK government rode roughshod over democratic debate and business norms to create an even more fragmented rail system.

Friday 27 July 2001
Driving London to despair?
Congestion charging will do nothing for motorists - or for pedestrians and commuters. So what is it about?

Wednesday 11 July 2001
Safe as houses?
Do garages kill, and does paint poison?

Thursday 7 June 2001
spiked-proposals: Transport
An end to fragmentation and divisions; long-term national planning; improvements to infrastructure; an overhaul of inner-city transport.

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