Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: Auckland's Motorway Plan: A Template Other Places Should Steal Stuck in the Paradigm: Why Cities Struggle to Escape Car-Centric Planning Where Land-Use and Transport Integration Really Breaks Down Plus Quick Trips Read online Sponsor the Transport Leader The Transport Leader goes to over 4,000 professionals every week. These are the people who shape transport systems around the world. Sponsor Enquiries: russell@transportlc.org Transport Election...
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August 20th, 2026 Subscribe An Open Letter to Drivers Who've Had Enough of Congestion Dear Better-than-average drivers of the world, I know that you are feeling frustrated by the driving experience. After all, the car industry's adverts show beautiful, clear, empty roads without another car in sight, but your daily reality is often the complete opposite. Roads are heavily congested and getting worse. You have to slow to 20mph/30km/h in an increasing number of residential streets. You aren't...
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Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: A Depressing Truth: Women's and Girls Safety on Public Transport Why car travel is more price sensitive than it looks Every 10cm taller, 11% deadlier: new proof on vehicle size and pedestrian risk Plus Quick Trips Read online Sponsor the Transport Leader The Transport Leader goes to over 4,000 professionals every week. These are the people who shape transport systems around the world. Sponsor Enquiries: russell@transportlc.org The Opposition's...
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August 13th, 2026 Subscribe You Can Cut Travel and Grow the Economy. Here's How. Key Takeaways Degrowthers and mainstream economists share the same flawed assumption: that all travel drives economic growth. Roughly half the true cost of driving is covered by taxpayers, not users. Heavy subsidies create large volumes of low-value, marginal trips. Removing these subsidies through road user charging and priced parking would eliminate most of this marginal travel. Because traffic congestion...
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Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: When Is Too Much Accessibility A Bad Thing? Why Most Cycling Campaigns Don't Work (And What Does) Safe System's Implementation Problem Plus Quick Trips and Tool. Read online Sponsor the Transport Leader The Transport Leader goes to over 4,000 professionals every week. These are the people who shape transport systems around the world. Sponsor Enquiries: russell@transportlc.org Transport Experts v Vested Interests In the latest Transport Leaders...
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August 6th, 2026 Subscribe One Project, Seven Vetoes: What the Northern Line Extension Really Teaches Us Key Takeaways The blame for failing to get transport projects off the ground is often that there are too many people who can veto the project. The Northern Line Extension in London succeeded despite the system, not because of it, surviving 7 separate veto points that could each have killed it. The more decision-makers with power to block a project, the less likely it is to survive, however...
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Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: Falling Through The Cracks: Why Powered Mobility Devices Deserve Attention Free Parking Won't Save Your High Street. Complete Streets Might Stop Running Microtransit as a Side Project Plus Quick Trips Read online Sponsor the Transport Leader The Transport Leader goes to over 4,000 professionals every week. These are the people who shape transport systems around the world. Sponsor Enquiries: russell@transportlc.org The AV Pickup and Drop-Off...
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July 30th, 2026 Subscribe The Failure of Fare Caps: Ten Blind Spots in Transport Policy Key Takeaways The UKβs bus fare cap highlights a number of blind spots that commonly occur when developing and evaluating transport policy. Evaluating Policy Alternatives β Judging a policy against doing nothing, rather than against better alternatives. Ignoring BCRs β A BCR near or below one is a red flag, not something to ignore. Balancing the Evidence β Highlighting some of the benefits whilst ignoring...
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Subscribe Welcome. In Today's Transport Leader: What 791 Cities Reveal About Decarbonising Transport Four Futures for European Rail (and the One Threat They Missed) The AV Rollout Question Every City Needs to Ask Plus Quick Trips Read online Reach 4000 Transport Leaders The Transport Leader goes to over 4,000 professionals every week. These are the people who shape transport systems around the world. Sponsor Enquiries: russell@transportlc.org Sustainability What 791 Cities Reveal About...
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